Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Perón. The estancieros' undoing began in 1944 with the rise of Dictator Juan Perón, who promised his lower-class descamisados (shirtless ones) steak on every plate and decreed meat prices as low as 6? a Ib. When the landowners opposed him, Per¶n ordered prohibitive land taxes, forcing the breakup of many ranches, decreed 60% wage boosts for workers, lured away cow hands by promising still higher wages in newly established industries. The most far-reaching legislation of all was an inheritance law that provided that each heir must get an equal share...
...Voted, in the Senate (72-15), to limit U.S. meat imports to an average of 1959-63 imports, or about 30% less than last year's 1.7 billion Ibs. Backed by cattle-state Senators, who blame imports for low cattle prices, and opposed by the Administration on trade policy grounds, the bill now goes to the House, where the Administration will again try to block passage...
Harlem's Golden Age began. "Meat was cheap and home brew was strong," wrote Historian Lerone Bennett. "Duke Ellington was at the Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage...
...still subsist on cabbage and rice, although good harvests have ended the near famine of the early '60s. Sugar and wheat are still rationed, but ice cream and cakes are plentiful and cheap, and the stalls at the central markets are banked high with ornamental heaps of vegetables, meat, tiny eggs and fish. "China has not forgotten how to eat," one tourist was told by his guide. Nor has it forgotten how to cook-for those who can pay for it. The once-great cuisine of Peking has slipped, but French TV Commentator Maurice Werther, who traveled...
...roles several times in the course of a year. In the best of all possible worlds, an oyster might live 15 years, but only one in 10,000 makes it to maturity. The tingle-snail can bore through the shell of a full-grown oyster and scoop out the meat in six hours. The starfish pries open the shell of the oyster and devours it. And of course there...