Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some café owners kept their prices down but cut their meat portions, refused seconds on coffee and turned to à la carte menus. In Atlanta, a restaurant proprietor shook his head: "Every day," said he, "I stand in the lobby of the building where my place is and count the lunches going by in paper bags. There are more of those lunch toters every week...
...trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante at a smörgasbord...
...University started an investigation of its meat supply yesterday when 15 Kirkland men exhumed buckshot from their "tenderized steak...
Reuther wanted much more than that. Regulation W, said he, was a "rich man's racket" which made it impossible for the workingman to buy a car. With no real documentation to back him up, Reuther said that the "meat-ax approach" of Regulation W, plus cutbacks in critical materials, would throw no less than 321,000 auto workers out of work. Reuther had a meat-ax approach of his own: slap immediate controls on everything except wages...
...department also has a second similar machine, doing the same type of work, purchased from funds allotted by the American Meat Institute last fall. Should the theory prove correct, the meat industry hopes to be able to devise a means to lessen the effect of proteins in forming colesterol...