Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During her first night at her first missionary station, Ellen became hysterical when a python glided into her hut. But soon after, having bought some firearms and learned to use them, she became the village hunter and kept the whole area in meat, shooting game as big as hippopotamus. She knew nothing about surgery, but she studied old medical textbooks and, assisted by grit and prayer, tackled whatever came her way with uncommon success. She bought a wonderfully intelligent old Negro woman from her husband (for a few empty tin cans, a little salt and a length of cloth...
Horseplay. In San Diego, Miss Eugenia Welker complained to police that practical jokers spoiled her vacation by 1) listing her house with a rental agent, 2) falsely reporting to police that she had found a diamond ring, 3) sending her ten pounds of horse meat...
...billion people; this time, it was feeding only itself and maybe some Koreans. Besides, it already had large surpluses in the cupboard (see BUSINESS). Sugar hoarding was unnecessary and foolish. Barring the kind of panic buying that brings on the controls that nobody wants, there should be enough meat and other foods, gasoline, sheets, soap, cooking fats, men's shirts, nylons, cigarettes, liquor, and women's & children's clothing. (Apparel wool for men's suits is not so plentiful, but probably adequate...
There was no meat shortage, either. In the Iowa feed pens, farmers last week were fattening 37% more cattle than a year ago. In Nebraska and Illinois cattle feeding operations were also higher. By fall there would be such a tremendous flow of fattened beef and pork to the nation's markets that prices were expected to fall...
...Gerber introduced chopped "junior" foods (for older children), later teamed up with Armour & Co. to put out chopped meat for moppets-a product which, along with the rising birth rate, helped Gerber double his sales in the last three years alone. Last week, Dan Gerber was betting that the U.S. trend toward bigger families would continue. Having already spent $5,000,000 on expansion since the war, he announced plans to spend $3,000,000 more for new manufacturing space at Fremont, a new warehouse in Rochester, a cereal plant in Oakland, Calif, and a new affiliate which will sell...