Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attack. After each failure of McGowen and his crew, the neighborhood became more outraged. Complaints piled into department headquarters; the pressure increased. The dogcatchers tried every trick they knew. They loaded ground beef with dope tablets; Maverick found it, ate the meat, left the pellets on the ground. They mapped out the streets he used, staked themselves out in concealment with lassos, but Maverick, 80 Ibs. of muscle and speed, trotted new avenues. They even set out a trap baited with a boxer bitch in heat, but Maverick and the bitch tore the trap apart and loped happily off together...
...where prices are concerned: "It must be said that.in most cases the ad is silent about the cost of the goods it advertises, although this question is of great interest to the customer." And window displays are hopeless. Either they are too static, showing nothing but pyramiding cans of meat and vegetables, or they are unchanged from year to year, or-even worse-they do not correspond to what is available in the store. Lamented Sovetskaya Kultura...
...abuilding near Asheville, will buy $10 million worth of North Caro-ina fruits and vegetables yearly. Furthermore, Swift & Co., following the opening of an Armour & Co. plant at Charlotte, in a few months will complete a $17 million plant at Wilson, will spur the state's production of meat...
...chief virtues about the House dining halls has been the abundance of catsup to cover bare mutton or veal. The Central Kitchen creation seldom are inspiring and meat in its naked glory can be very discouraging. But catsup is now regrettably rationed and cranberry sauce is as rare these days as caviar. The rather gelatinous stuffing which dresses up pork as well as fowl provides no real substitute for the jelly on chicken or turkey...
Except for dishes like hamburgers or french fries, most meals are bleakly bare. Catsup can be obtained if requested, ceremoniously parcelled out in paper thimbles. But the reassuring jars of the tomato spice, which held enough to hide the most unattractive mystery meat, are gone...