Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exports-the sales abroad of meat, wool and grains that once made Argentina one of the world's greatest trading nations -dropped in the last five years to one-half of their previous volume. Reason: Peron's government grabbed control of all exports and crippled farm production in an attempt to squeeze out profits to finance an ill-planned industrialization. ¶Industrialization, too, utterly failed to bring Argentina power, steel, fuel, even such essential equipment as trucks and farm machinery...
...wilds of Montana and this script, Jane Russell is shacked up in a log cabin with Clark Gable, and there is nothing between them except grandmother's quilt. At night, while Jane lies sighing and stretching like a contented kitten, Clark gnaws happily at a piece of mule meat. "After a long ride," he explains, "I get hungry as a bear." In the morning Jane suggests a clubby breakfast. "I wish I was a peach tree," she sings, "a growin' in the ground . . . And if he wants them peaches of mine He'll have to climb...
...celebrate the impending release of his movie, Sincerely Yours, Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace threw a party at his new San Fernando Valley home. Mamma Liberace supplied meat balls around a swimming pool built in the shape of a piano, and the host was served up in a black suit and gold tie studded with rhinestones. Asked by a guest how he got away with such sartorial splendor, Liberace replied: "It takes guts...
BEEF-BACON SALES are soaring as a result of newspaper stories that the meat is one of President Eisenhower's favorites, is on his menu at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Armour says sales of beef bacon have shot up 30%, would have gone higher except that demand outran supply...
...lines in 25 major metropolitan newspapers, where National had 2,000,000 lines more than any other single company. He has cut markups from an average of 25% to 15%, brightened his stores with new color schemes, electric-eye doors, air conditioning and new packaging techniques, especially for meat. He has achieved almost complete self-service (for an average of 5,000 items) in many of his stores, and hopes soon to make it 100% everywhere...