Word: offal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others grumbled that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards; why should he take offense at our meager mode of life...
...coal seam, gobbling up ore from Mesabi and spewing out molten steel. It squatted, black and ugly, on the hills between the Allegheny and the Monongahela, trailing mill towns up & down its river valleys. It dug the coal and fed it into fiery furnaces, and strewed the mountainous offal of its furnaces across its landscape...
Some 25,000 times a day in the nation's stockyards a hog offal operator plunges her hand into the bloody base of a hog's severed head as it travels down the conveyer chain. With deft fingers she gets hold of the pituitary gland. Then, with a pair of tweezers, she removes the front half of the gland and drops it into a container of Dry Ice. That is the first step in the production of ACTH, the new wonder drug which may ultimately save millions from the ravages of arthritis, gout, rheumatic fever and kindred ills...
...filthy, tattered flotsam of Calcutta's normal beggar population has always shocked the Westerner. Today thousands of refugees are streaming into the city from starving Bengal villages. Men, women & children swarm about hotel garbage cans, clawing hungrily over heaps of offal that spread a sickening pall of stench for blocks; Calcutta's hospitals, with beds for only a small percentage of the city's sick, report a score or more of starvation deaths daily. Private agencies feed 62,000 destitutes each day, cannot keep pace with the influx...