Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this as one instance of a general pattern in the difficult business of planning a college's meals. Wednesday continues the week's overall scheme, with a special dish such as roast beef or chicken. Then on either Tuesday or Thursday the dietician fills in with a lower cost meat, such as sausage or chicken...
...meat-packing workers, WSB approved a 9? increase to avoid a strike, even though 3? was the permissible limit...
Frenchmen like Pinay because he boldly attacked the problem that troubled them most: high retail prices. In his four weeks in office, butter prices had fallen from 880 to 760 francs per kilo; milk and cheese were down 15%. Pinay had worked no miracles (meat prices are still rising). As a right-wing businessman, he had merely consulted the men he knows best: France's business leaders. He persuaded department-store owners to back a price reduction campaign. He called it "Save the Franc." Some cynical shoppers thought the price cuts were more apparent than real; still, they were...
...months that the Conservatives have been in power, the backbenchers have had nothing but alibis to offer their constituents in place of the golden promises made on the hustings of more red meat and fewer controls. In a local election, depression-ridden Lancashire had just voted Laborite for the first time in its history. Eleven of the rebellious Tory backbenchers seized on the Lancashire slump to demand that Chancellor Rab Butler lift the purchase tax on textiles. When he would not, four more Tories joined the revolt...
...comic's humor is methodically pointed while the buffoon will do anything, to provoke a laugh, usually with little success. All this leads up to the thesis that after months of waving his lance through the air with little purpose, Lampy has finally found a good, solid chunk of meat to pierce. The result of his galloping attack on the movie industry is by no means a brilliant satire; yet it is well above the usual Lampoon fare and, on the whole, an amusing collection...