Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of food. We would instruct the women how to make the most of their Diors and Balenciagas and how to develop their natural resources. With the latest American cosmetic equipment they could earn diamonds, pearls, rubies and emeralds that they could eventually exchange for rice, meat and other staples. We could show the men how to plow with their Ferraris and Mercedes, and how to handle their polo ponies so they could get the most out of their crops...
...Joan of the Stockyards (1929) is wholly in the first category. Pierpont Mauler is a crush-as-crush-can Chicago meat baron. When a careless worker falls into the meat machinery at Mauler's plant, he is tinned with the product. This sort of thing makes Brecht's caricature of capitalists both hopelessly dated and immensely funny to a modern American audience. Joan Dark (Jeanne d'Arc), the girl who stands up to Mauler, is a parody figure mostly modeled on Shaw's Major Barbara-a Salvation Army-type lassie who belongs to an evangelical group...
...other crew members.-Olmstead and McKone spent the next seven months in Russian prisons, most of the time in solitary confinement. Their cells were cramped and chilly. Strong lights burned steadily, 24 hours a day. Subsisting on "small but regular quantities of rice, macaroni products and boiled meat," they lost about 40 pounds apiece during their imprisonment. They were not tortured or subjected to any physical violence, but, said Olmstead, "it was certainly very unpleasant...
While his competitors are following the same formula, Armour is by far the fastest-changing meat company. Prince has put more than 40% of its assets into more profitable lines, notably those that were originally meat byproducts, such as chemicals, oils and soaps. Last week, for example, Armour began regional marketing of its Princess Dial, a complexion soap for women, to go with its deodorant Dial, the nation's leader in dollar volume. But Prince is not overlooking his meat marketing. Armour has begun to sell high-profit, boil-in-the-pack frozen meals, and soon will begin limited...
...fame as a serious artist and the composer of Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore and Country Gardens was equaled by his fame as a serious eccentric who often hiked to concerts carrying a knapsack, was married in the Hollywood Bowl before a delighted audience of 22,000, abhorred meat, tobacco, coffee, tea and alcohol but adored cheese, raw vegetables and a half-and-half mixture of cold milk and hot water; of cancer; in White Plains...