Word: meats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...entirely blameless. On his way to work every morning, he noticed with dismay the amount of garbage piled up on city doorsteps. "Argentines," he said, "throw one and a half million head of cattle into the garbage can every year . . . It is easy to see that the bread and meat thrown away daily in Buenos Aires would easily feed any European city for a week...
...first advice to the women was to stop wasting meat and to use leftovers. When he and Evita first moved into the presidential residence, the President added, "the monthly food bill was 12,000 pesos. Now I barely spend 1,200-including the servants' food." They had done it, he said, by planting a vegetable garden and acquiring some chickens and cows...
These hams [are] available in nearly every large food store in the Washington area, and sold as fast as they reach the counter . . . I suggest that our U.S. meat packers learn how to achieve that incomparable flavor...
...example, that 100,-ooo casualties would require 600,000 pints of blood over a period of six weeks. It would take 17 freight cars to hold that many pint bottles. To distribute it to casualty stations the city would have to mobilize every vehicle with a refrigeration unit, from meat trucks down to Good Humor wagons...
...Since meat already takes up some 24% of the U.S. housewife's food budget, packers worried that further price rises might tempt Congress to revive price controls...