Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Hall. "Board has been a problem since 1638," wrote President Eliot in 1874, referring not to the food, but to the lack of a place in which to serve it. Memorial Hall solved the problem, and became a dining hall, on the two conditions "that joints of meat shall not be carved upon the tables, and that no alcoholic beverages be used...
...enlisted as a private in the British Army and received a commission eight months later. After the war, he traveled in India, studying plantation management by living with cocoa and rubber planters. He returned to Ecuador in 1919 to manage his family's plantation. Later he founded the first meat packing business in Ecuador. During the inter-war period, Stagg traveled so frequently that he can boast, "I have never spent more than two consecutive years on the same continent during the past forty years." His travels took him to China, India, Japan, Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, and Europe...
...reason, said Truman, was that "scores of special interests have ganged up together for the purpose of securing special short-run advantages for themselves." Truman was making partisan hay out of a half-truth. Some special interests (e.g., meat) had wangled concessions in the controls bill. But the truth was that the Administration's price-control program had never been designed to really freeze prices rigidly. By his sweeping charge, Truman was blaming somebody else for every penny rise which his own agencies were planning to allow...
...Covner baby was sleeping so hard, as Roberta put it, "that you couldn't wake him up with a meat cleaver," and the girls hurried upstairs, forthwith, to steal some of Mrs. Covner's dresses for the trip. They made a heady discovery-the doctor, for reasons best known to himself, had hidden $18,000 in small bills in a box in the bedroom closet. Gasping with conspiratorial joy, the girls bundled clothes and money into a suitcase, swiped some lipstick, hustled out of the house and took a bus to the big city...
...Fixed meat prices at 10% above 1950 highs...