Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ration list for the first time. Since then, laundry soap has been added to the list and the monthly sugar ration has been slashed to slightly more than half a pound per person. In the great port of Canton there is a shortage of fish; in Shanghai, meat is all but unobtainable...
...their feet on desks or cross their legs or keep their hands in their pants pockets. To whistle in public will cause cries of "Ne kulturny but Russians think nothing of shoving and elbowing their way through crowds or of using their fingers to tear off bits of meat at the table...
...45° angle; if he tilts to 50°, the whole Hill knows that Clarence Cannon is on a rampage. He judges his subcommittee chairmen by the amount by which they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat ax to the foreign aid bill (the Senate restored some of the cut). He held Passman up to the full committee as a shining example of the positive statesman. Says Cannon: "Of course they all laughed...
...omission of phrenology from the Harvard curriculum is indeed unfortunate, for it is a part of the great American cultural heritage, what Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., has called "the intellectual backwash of a backward frontier economy." Surely such stuff is fit meat for the intellectual appetites of hungry Harvard students...
...Armour Jr., 50, was elected president of H. J. Heinz Co., the first non-Heinz to hold the job since the firm started as a horse-radish distributor in 1869. He succeeds H. J. Heinz II, who became chairman of the board. Armour (no kin to Chicago's meat-packing Armours), went to work at Heinz in 1927 as a visitors' guide, held 57 varieties of jobs within the company. He worked in sales and advertising, became general manager of manufacturing in 1946, a vice president in 1949, executive vice president in 1957. Armour will be trying...