Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pound of meat cost 3.5 marks, a pack of cigarettes 2 marks, an overcoat 200 marks. The fact that he and other workers could not buy at high prices has gradually halted the trade spurt created in 1947 when Western Germany's Economic Director Ludwig Erhard removed many governmental price-fixing and other controls. Erhard, however, did not remove private controls exercised by more than 2,000 German trade associations. The associations have kept prices high to get all the profits they can. The associations tell the shopkeeper how much to charge. If he disobeys, the association...
...novel, The Cannibal. Written by Harvardman Hawkes at 23, The Cannibal is a dizzying surrealist vision of postwar Germany, in which, among other oddities, a monkey screams "Dark is life, dark, dark is death," a duke hacks a fox to death and invites his landlady to dine on the meat, and one-third of Germany is ruled by a solitary American...
...first issue had more artifice than art, nobody was selling Editor Fleur or Publisher (and husband) Gardner Cowles short. Issue No. 2, already in the works, was much improved-cleaner and simpler layouts, bigger pictures, less prune whip and more meat. And Publisher Cowles and brother John Cowles, whose picture magazine Look (circ. 3,039,811) and news digest Quick (which claims 700,000) were doing handsomely, were prepared to underwrite Fleur's Flair for as long as necessary. The confident circulation guarantee for Flair's first year...
...million Ibs. of Mexican canned meat & gravy, purchased for about 30? a lb., pricetagged...
...Like its U.S. cousin, the chickadee, Britain's tit has been taught to relish the meat of coconuts hung on a garden tree.) One Times reader, the bird-loving Countess of Cawdor, took a more ominous view of the matter. "Could it be," she mused darkly, "that it is we ourselves whose mad behavior has affected the tits...