Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold generally gets up before 8, takes a short walk around the estate, or a quick dip in the lake. Then he reads his mail, confers with his secretaries. His meals are moderate; he takes little meat, likes vegetables and fruit, drinks mineral water or fruit juices...
When the U.S. Army asked for bids last month to supply 10.7 million lbs. of meat for troops in Germany, the most eager response came from Uruguay. Faced with a slump in the world wool market and harassed by the economic bullying of neighboring Argentina, Uruguay needed additional export business to keep its currency stable...
...first elected governor. With his handsome wife and two dark-eyed daughters, he went to the Hotel Plaza, where he had no sooner checked in than he headed for the kitchen. "New York kitchens," he explained, "are always full of Puerto Ricans. They make the salads, cut the meat, wash the dishes." The Plaza's kitchen help were appropriately enthusiastic; several elderly women fell on Muñoz' neck and wept...
...usual chicken are a nuisance." His wingless chickens do not have to be confined by high wire fences, because their ceiling is about two feet. They are nice and quiet too, and the roosters don't fight much. They "dress -out" beautifully, says Baumann, "with white meat where the wings are on other birds. These chickens are the nearest thing to a schmoo of anything alive...
...considered attractive." So far the price cuts on many things had not been great enough to coax out the "strong underlying consumer demand." And despite the drop in commodities and the general business recession, many an item in the cost of living was not following the trend. For example, meat, which had dropped, had gone up again. But those industries which had gone through their own recessions and cut prices had found that the bottom was not so far down as they had feared. They had learned demand was indeed enormous if they went after it with their oldtime salesman...