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...predicted "famine" a false alarm. Butter stocks were over 100 million lb., as against a normal spring supply of 40 million lb. Lard stocks were the biggest ever. Total meat production in March was 27% greater than a year ago. There were hints that point values for lamb and mutton, butter, pork products, and some beef cuts would be reduced on May 1 Manhattan's bustling fish market was swamped one day by the arrival of 1.5 million Ib. of fish (normal daily average: 650,000 Ib.). Warehouses and cold-storage plants from coast to coast were bursting with...
...Coleridge : "Hazlitt, to the feelings of anger and hatred, phosphorus - it is but to open the cork and it flames!" Wrote Hazlitt to his bride : "I never love you half so well as when I think of sitting down with you to dinner on a boiled scrag-end of mutton, and hot potatoes...
This bit of propaganda, making use of an institution as British as mutton pie, followed Foreign Minister Molotov's announcement of wider autonomy for member states of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Feb. 14). It also drove home the point that the Russians are determined to regain and keep the briefly free (1918-40) Baltic countries...
Waring, with 2,000 laying hens, is on the fringe of commercial chicken farming, and Teller raises Cheviot sheep to be sold for breeding purposes. But they raise most of their own foodstuffs, most of their animal feeds, and they stuff themselves and their families with eggs, chicken, mutton and milk...
...battle with Miss Bennett over the trust fund, she promised that if she got to the witness stand she would give a complete account of her life with Plant. The matter was settled out of court. Miss Bennett picked up her baggage and doll and returned to her theatrical mutton...