Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safe preservation, most locker plants use the "sharp-freeze" method, whereby food is flash-frozen at minus 20-30° F., wrapped in special paper, stored away in the lockers at zero. Modern food banks are really small local packing plants. For the farmer some food banks will slaughter, chill, cut, smoke or freeze, and package. For the urbanite they buy whole sides of beef from the meat wholesaler, cut it to chops, store it away. Extra charges: 1? to 5? a Ib. Even so, locker renters save 50 to 75% compared with retail meat prices; many a farmer eats...
Americans were proud and delighted when they received the news of the amazing success of MacArthur's flyers in destroying the entire enemy flotilla. They cannot have the same feeling regarding the cold-blooded slaughter of the helpless...
...ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson, partly to strut, mostly to stooge; fetches his fans with old favorites like Inka-Dinka-Doo; he insults waiters, lambastes bus boys, beats up the band, heaves lamps, flings around telephones, rips apart pianos, surges to a high-slaughter mark of comic violence...
Anxiety was evident that the Germans, on the pretext that a national revolt had started, might order a slaughter in an attempt to end all resistance and obtain the workers promise by Pierre Laval, Vichy dictator...
Shall the Living Die? In all of German-occupied Europe, only Italy and Hungary had not carried anti-Semitism to the point of delivering up their Jews to the mass slaughter. But there were thousands of prospective victims in these countries. Today they might still be saved, and others too - in Rumania and Bulgaria, possibly even in other occupied nations...