Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite a problem. We were raised to believe we were man's intellectual equal. Yet to achieve emotional tranquillity, i.e., home, marriage, children, we must confine our mental exercise to the question of [when] a baby should have solid foods, or which is the most economical cut of meat ... As one of my friends put it, 'It's like saying all men must be plumbers-whether they are physically, mentally or emotionally equipped...
...question called for a simple yes or no: Are Roman Catholics permitted to eat whale meat on fast days? No, according to the Archbishopric of Vienna; the whale is no fish but a warm-blooded mammal-hence forbidden. When the question was put to the Vatican, officials of the Holy Office deliberated long & hard. Last week came the answer: on Fridays and other abstinence days Catholics must abstain from "beasts of the fields and fowl of the air." Underwater creatures-even if they come up for air, or occasionally come ashore for a brief siesta-count as fish. Whale meat...
...Meat & Potatoes. If pressed, Taylor admits that hard work has had something to do with the Stanford winning streak. Starting off with a bunch of lackluster seniors who had never lived up to their press notices, Taylor made the obvious beginning with the fundamentals-blocking and tackling. Then, instead of saddling the squad with an intricate offense, he settled for sound execution of 14 basic running plays, and 15 passing plays from Stanford's T-formation...
...short plate of a steer, for example, are contiguous parts of the animal. But under OPS ceilings, prime rib wholesales for more than double the price of short plate. Thus, butchers who want to cheat merely cut the rib big, the plate small. Another dodge: meat packers are allowed a certain shrinkage in cooling their meat, but it is a simple matter to claim more shrinkage than actually occurs. It is just as simple to rejuggle the books to bring purchase prices down with little risk of being caught. For with retail prices skyhigh, black marketeers can buy their beef...
...soon, prices will drop, beef will be plentiful, and Mike Di Salle will win his battle for continued controls. But if this does not happen, and the beef-control program is working as badly and as unfairly by midwinter as it is now, then even impartial observers think that meat controls must be abandoned...