Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choppy sound, purse seiners worked all night hauling in blue-backed sockeye salmon. One boat brought in $21,000 worth, then headed out again. Wharves and packing plants were soon piled high with sockeye, whose firm red meat makes it a fine canning fish. In Bellingham, Wash. housewives were drafted to help in the crowded canneries; in Anacortes children were excused from school to help. In two weeks U.S. and Canadian fishermen hauled out 7,500,000 fish worth $2 each, expected to land another 2,500,000, v. last year's total catch...
...politicos listened, then decided that Stevenson's "perhaps" policy was not the meat on which successful campaigns feed. Forty assembled candidates for Congress issued a joint statement: "We still stand squarely behind price supports at no less than 90% of parity...
Flying Dutchman. In San Diego, after the Superior Meat Co. requested payment for the $966 worth of meat it had delivered to the chief petty officer of the U.S.S. Capsanta, police and Navy investigators could find no meat, no chief petty officer, no ship named Capsanta...
...America, but it is far better than to continue the bloody, dreary sacrifice of lives with no possible strictly military victory in sight." At home, the President said, controls had been lifted, inflation avoided, a sensible farm program and other vital legislation enacted. Then the President came to the meat of his speech. While the Eisenhower program was being passed, he said, "there have been sitting on the sidelines . . . the prophets of gloom and doom...
...British Empire Games in Vancouver, B.C. last week, visiting Australians did their rugged best to live up to their press notices. They began well. Billed as good-natured brawlers, they touched off the first international rhubarb by filing a loud beef about the skimpy supply of good red meat at the breakfast table...