Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, Meat Packers Oscar Mayer & Co., famed for their frankfurters, agreed to sponsor a children's show, but only after it was retitled from Homer, the Horse to Elmer, the Elephant...
Grand Hotel. At a $75,000 white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...
...William Wallace) McCallum, 47, did "the hardest thing I ever had to do in my whole life" and resigned the financial vice presidency of Oscar Mayer & Co.. Inc. (meat packers) to become president of rival John Morrell & Co., the first non-family president in its 126-year history. McCallum is a onetime certified public accountant who made so skillful an audit of Mayer's business that he was hired away from Price Waterhouse...
...factory, and some kept on working their machines. Mayor La Pira rushed to their aid. He attended Mass with them in the factory courtyard, talked strategy with the Communist-dominated union committee, and showed the workers that someone besides the Communists was active in their interests. Merchants donated meat, fish, pasta, bread, wine and cigarettes; the city and provincial councils scraped up 3,000,000 lire ($4,800) for the workers' families. La Pira fired off a letter to the Vatican, got a papal blessing on his campaign...
...body and supplies to launch such an attack. Their two daily meals at dawn and twilight consisted mostly of sticky globs of rice and a few slivers of salmon and beef. In between, they sampled everything from roots and berries to mules and monkeys. Wrote one G.I.: "That monkey meat is all right until the animal's hands turn up on a plate." Beset by dysentery, dengue fever and malaria, badgered by enemy planes and artillery, blocked off from all aid, the men nursed their back-to-the-wall morale in bitter little ditties...