Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharp Whistle. A wealthy Chicago textile manufacturer, Mansure, 54, had run GSA since May 1953. In the process he had built a reputation as a money-saving, detail man. So meticulous that he separates the meat from the potatoes when eating beef hash, he saved paper clips, and put three-minute egg timers on subordinates' desks to shorten telephone calls. But Mansure's fine eye for housekeeping details (which won the praise of the Hoover Commission) was not always matched by a clear view of the bigger picture. He seemed to have one standard for office efficiency...
...resignation, Benson was still up to his old determination to tell people what he thought they should hear, whether they wanted to hear it or not. At a meeting of the National Swine Industry Committee in Chicago, he read a lecture to the processors and distributors of meat products. Said he: "I have been extremely concerned in recent months that prices to farmers were going down while marketing margins were going up. In other words, low hog prices were not fully reflected in pork values to the consumer ... I am fully aware that total costs of processing and merchandising pork...
...quick reply came from the American Meat Institute, which said that "packers" profits are notoriously low-too low, in fact, to provide adequate funds for plant improvement and modernization, research and promotion. In 1955 . . . meat packers' earnings averaged less than a cent per dollar of sales...
Gourmets to the last, the newspapers of Paris printed up special menus "pour le grand froid." Their recommendation: plenty of red meat and fresh vegetables. Movie houses and theaters canceled their shows. The hydraulic elevators at the Eiffel Tower refused to work, and even the doughty and haughty clochards (the hobos of Paris) sought shelter in the stations of their ancient enemies, the police...
Tibet, according to the script, is a land of few but salient features: yaks, prayer flags, monks, and declining population. Yaks especially. Tibetans plow their fields with yaks, eat yak meat and cheese, light their lamps with yak butter, and drink fifty cups of yak butter tea a day. Yak is also the country's chief export--its fur makes Santa Clause beards. Lowell Thomas Jr. adds significantly now and then, "Yes, it's those old yaks again...