Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bryant Halliday plays a competent Troilus, although he does not seem to get across the depth of feeling the part requires in the later seenes. As the meat-headed Ajax, John Peters is magnificent. Will West plays Achilles with a sufficient amount of sulky pride and a distinguished profile...
...tung, son of a Hunanese peasant, who, said Mao, "gave me neither eggs nor meat." Mao was once expelled from the Party Central Committee for opposing Moscow, led the Chinese Red army (with Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh) on the famous 6,000-mile "Long March" from Kiangsi to Shensi in 1935, last year became the ruler of the world's most populous nation...
...rise, work like heck and advertise." Businessmen did indeed advertise-the more than $400 million spent in newspapers in 1949 was the greatest ever. They also cut prices, squared off against their competitors, and ran their own private giveaway programs. Many appliance sellers threw in $40 worth of frozen meat with every freezer; in Milwaukee, a furniture store offered a free airplane ride with every $50 purchase. In Denver, a used-car dealer gave every purchaser a second car for i?. House builders, who had yawned at any request for a house under $20,000, hustled to turn them...
...have heaped the whole onus of beef prices on our heads for the past several years would look into the devious byways of the trade, cowmen could once again go to town in their working clothes without taking the risk of being tarred & feathered with some unpleasant form of meat substitute...
...mutual support. It observed: "The finest flower that grows must strike its roots in material earth . . . The noble products of civilization spring from organized and intelligently directed industry. When men lived in caves and every head of a family had to kill his own bear or go without meat, there were no Doric temples, no Trajan columns, or Dewey arches, and no poets reciting their verses of a Summer evening...