Word: pork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Department explained that meat consumption in the U. S. increased from 143.9 Ibs. per capita in 1921 to 149.7 Ibs. in 1922, to 167 Ibs. in 1923-and that five-sixths of the extra meat consumed was pork, pork being now 54% of the meat diet of the world's greatest meat-eating nation...
...twice around the world at the equator with enough left over to reach from the North Pole to the southern end of South America. This same great drove would stand 21 abreast from New York to San Francisco. A prodigious meat appetite is needed to consume all this pork...
...that indigestion has finally been found to be the cause of nearly half of all human illness. But still more interesting, he believes that "eating has a specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...
...wool, $167 millions. In the same period our exports of wheat totaled $192 millions, and of corn $75 millions. In all the above imports, last year's figures exceeded those of 1921-22, while our wheat and corn exports were far under those of the preceding year. Pork and cotton exports showed increases, but they were counterbalanced by the huge increases in all imports...
...that after his hard labors there are many times when a Representative desires to rest reclining. Said The New York World: "The situation demands investigation- and action. Members of Congress, like babies, are least trouble when they are asleep. Five hundred sofas would be cheaper than one good fat pork-barrel grab...