Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through Les Halles' twelve iron-and-glass pavilions move every fish, vegetable and piece of meat that Paris consumes. "The belly of Paris," Emile Zola called it. Under the glaring light of bare electric bulbs, husky men in blue overalls and leather aprons unload crates of cabbages from Burgundy, baskets of fish from Brittany, beef carcasses from Normandy...
...Central Kitchen handles 16,000 pounds of meat a week, which includes items like 3700 pounds of boneless beef tops, 2200 pounds of mutton legs, 1900 pounds of fowl, 17000 pounds of chicken fryers, and 350 pounds of sausage meat...
Heaman's office incorporates this typical order from the Central Kitchen with similar ones from Adams and Dunster Houses, the freshman Union, Harkness Commons, and the Medical School. Boston meat packers then bid for contracts on Heaman's specific orders. The contracts go to the lowest bidder, and the whole process repeats itself a week later...
...desk three, and one at each check-out desk on the first and third levels. "You'd need at least one man at desk three," another librarian commented, "because if you didn't allow students to check out reserve books after 10 it would be like dangling meat in front of hungry lions...
Mary graduated into the intellectual Manhattan of the '303 when all roads seemed to lead to Moscow. She marched in May Day parades "for fun." As a "romantic desperado . . . like all truly intellectual women" (her own phrase), Mary McCarthy found Trotsky her meat. Trotsky saved her from Stalin; when her Irish logic argued that the Great Heretic should be given a fair shake in the jurisprudence of the revolution, she found herself cold-shouldered by her Stalinist friends with whom she had drunk gin for Republican Spain. She, in turn, has cold-shouldered them ever since...