Word: pork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hogs, in the face of the heaviest shipments in more than a year, bounded upward with the outlawing of the $2.25 per cwt. processing tax. Yet pork prices were slashed, and packers were cheered by the prospect of regaining lost volume through lower meat prices in general...
...Christmas stockings. The Lindberghs had paid the standard rate of $280 for two and a half one-way fares. It was reported that the Lindberghs would have a Christmas dinner of turkey with all the trimmings. It was reported that the Lindberghs would have a Christmas dinner of roast pork & applesauce. It was reported that the Lindberghs had been accompanied by three servants, by two servants, by no servants...
...that they can all go to Hollywood one day and be rich and famed. Daughter Violet, after smashing one man with a water bottle, goes off with a fisherman. Plump Daughter Clarice, starving to be a tap dancer, succumbs naturally to a German carpenter and a mess of pork chops. And only after a sailor has left her with a baby does Daughter Ruby peek into her parents' bedroom, find that her mother was fooling all the time...
...protest re your "Dead Hog & Roast Pork" in the Oct. 28 issue. Granting that one reader's roast pork is another's dead hog," '' don't you think the protests printed were nevertheless indicative of the fact that TIME does word things in such a way that biases may be inferred, though perhaps not intended? Your style is intended to be interesting, and is so, but I personally often feel that in the effort to be interesting, you go too far. We have only just started to take TIME regularly. I have read practically every...
...cancellation of my subscription I am brought to a pause by the discovery that you agree with me on so many points, and are consequently fair and unbiased, that I make haste to withdraw my cancellation. Let some of your correspondents recall that applesauce goes well with roast pork...