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...butter on their yearly bread instead of the 18 lb. to which they are accustomed. Meat will prove the major food problem, not everywhere at once but in spots gradually. At first there will appear to be an abundance of beef steaks, veal cutlets, legs of lamb and mutton chops as farmers without forage dispose of their stock. But by 1935 herds will be down to such a point that stockmen will have much less meat for sale. Because of the Government's wholesale slaughter of pigs, pork will be about the scarcest commodity this winter. Where ten pork chops...
During his stay in China the devout were shocked to learn that His Holiness is no ascetic. Though Tibetan Lamas consider it virtuous to go hungry and a sin to eat flesh or fish, the Panchen Lama feasted regularly in Nanking on chicken, beef, mutton and those expensive Chinese delicacies, sharks' fins and hot sea slugs...
...acre estate of Charles Arthur Moore at Round Hill, Conn.. 8,000 U. S. Scots last week assembled for the largest festival of its kind outside Scot-land-the annual Cowal Games of the United States. A day-long orgy of mutton-pie eating, sword-dancing, and caber-tossing, the Cowal Games ended with a parade of 100 bagpipers and drummers who marched over the rolling hills tooting the air of The Seventy-Ninth Farewell to Gibraltar. Prize for piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered...
...diatribe is that an educational institution cerebrates on its belly, and good scholarship must wait upon a balanced menu. Were the authorities to focus upon the problem under their noses, the path would straightway be cleared for the furtherance of the humanities. And incidentally pruning the bully beef and mutton chop outlay would not only finance the purchase of greens but might net Lehman Hall a tidy little surplus as well. Rhodes P. Frothingham...
Serious, hardworking Son Edward has learned a lot about the packing business since he graduated from Princeton in 1926, pulled on high boots, began prodding Wilson & Co. cattle through Chicago's stockyards. For a time he helped buy livestock, later became manager of the small-stock (veal & mutton) department. Last year he was elected a director. Last week he declared: "Dad will probably be busier than ever, for in addition to his regular duties he will be teaching me the business. But maybe in five years or so he might want to spend more time riding and playing golf...