Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Splinter groups meanwhile formed in the ranks. The United Nations Council, the World Federalists, and the Students for Democratic Action all organized within the League for Democracy. The entire League concerned itself with the Cambridge elections, the Marshall Plan Rally, and the activities of the meat packers' union...
Break this down into per capita consumption and each girl accounts for 11 pounds of beef, nine of lamb, a more three gallons of ice cream, and just over four pounds of butter. Over the course of a full year, this means that the average student receives meat at least 12 times a week, ice cream usually twice a week, and generous supplies of butter at all meals except dinner...
Flirting With a Bogy. Some of the best Soviet advertising appears in the LIFE-like magazine Ogonek, which uses U.S.-style layouts. Many Ogonek ads are similar to U.S. wartime institutional advertising, i.e., they boost goods not pres ently available. Other Ogonek displays feature the Mikoyan Meat Trust and that old Russian delicacy, caviar (see cut). Price: only 40 rubles...
...Ming"-antipodean lingo for Prime Minister Robert Menzies-had made an election promise last fall to outlaw the Communist Party. The defiant Reds had called quickie strikes on the Melbourne and Brisbane waterfronts, tied up shipments of wool and meat abroad. A fortnight ago Ming's government moved toward a showdown by invoking the Emergency Crimes Act (first passed in 1914 against wartime sabotage), under which strike leaders could be jailed. "We will deal with Communists here once & for all," warned the Prime Minister. To waterfront strikers went an ultimatum: either back to work, or prison for union officials...
Almost all of them married Indian girls, prized buffalo as their favorite meat, and took the scalps of the savages they killed...