Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until he opens them. Equally well integrated into the film's conventions are certain conspicuous parts of the sound track, as when Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea) hears a cuckoo clock chanting "Cuckold! Cuckold! Cuckold!" or some barnyard noises Bloom hears in a tavern, when a greasy slab of meat falls from the gob of a man sitting near...
...election a letter went out to the store-front managers asking for resumes on their workers. Lindsay likes to say that his appointments are not made on a patronage basis but according to merit. Nonetheless, many of his campaign workers have moved into City Hall as everything from meat inspectors to commissioners amid cries of "Patronage", from organization Republicans who feel short-changed...
Whatever the meat's merits, the industry owes its growth to Crab King Wakefield, 57, son of an Alaska salmonand-herring pioneer. Wakefield prepped at his father's processing plant at Port Wakefield on remote Afognak Island, struck out on his own after World War II to exploit the vast and virtually untouched king-crab grounds on Alaska's continental shelf. Though Japanese fleets had been catching and canning the huge crabs for years, Wakefield determined to try freezing the meat, on the theory that "when you are so far from the market that your costs...
...problem. "I found there wasn't one chef in a hundred who would bother to try it," says Wakefield. To stir up enthusiasm, he hired a Manhattan promoter who dumped the original wishy-washy "Ocean Frosted" brand name in favor of "Wakefield's" Alaska King Crab Meat. The change worked, and Wakefield turned his first profit ($73,000) in 1952; according to preliminary estimates his company, which is now publicly owned, earned $450,000 last year on sales...
...image. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his mythological status because of the "cringing, obsequious" way he called Augustus John "Master." Besides, after he bragged to the children that he lived on a daily handful of raisins, Lawrence's icebox was discovered to be stuffed with chicken, meat, butter...