Word: pork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existent commercially, brings $1.50 a lb., and New York City alone would have consumed 3,000 elk carcasses last autumn had they been available. Laboratory tests show that elk flesh has a third more nerve and energy-building qualities, a third less fattening qualities, than beef, mutton or pork...
...meat costs less to raise per lb. than beef, mutton or pork. Matured bull elk weigh 700 lb. to half a ton, females 600 to 800 lb. They mature in 16 to 18 months as against four years for cattle. Cattle herds increase 30% in good years; the acknowledged ratio for elk is 90%. The females calve in their third year, commonly twinning...
...departure. Hitherto Congress has specified where and what buildings were to be built and for how much?a proceeding which produced the old "pork barrel practice," every Congressman angling to get a fine building for his community. It was recognized that the President would never sanction an old-fashioned pork barrell bill, and since many buildings are badly needed this bill was passed with Administration approval. It was passed by a parliamentary maneuver?suspension of the rules?which prevented the offering of amendments and cut down debate to less than an hour but required a two-thirds vote for passage...
...inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption, 435,000,000 lb.; in annual onion consumption, 85,000,000 lb.; in annual sugar consumption, 525,000,000 lb.; in total annual food consumption, four and a half million tons...
...Theodore Roosevelt was shaking his Big Stick at the meat trusts, the steel trusts, the oil trusts, every newspaper in the land published a picture of a Trust so that people would know one when they saw it. A Trust, cartoonists made clear, was a bloated figure with a pork barrel body, huge watchchain (labeled "Profits"), smoking with incredibly gross lips a big cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last week he suffered a recrudescence. He was called "Flower Trust...