Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public. The idea took years to catch on. But today thousands of farmers go to cold-storage locker plants, rent lockers big enough to hold 250 Ibs. of meat (or 6½ cu. ft. of any food) for $10 a year. The plants quick-freeze their meat. They also slaughter animals (at $2 a head for cattle, $1.50 for hogs, 75? for sheep) and prepare and freeze vegetables or fruits for 2½-3? a pound...
...added incentive for victory will be the fact that a win tonight will send the Crimson into the Yale game Saturday on even terms with the Elis, as the Big Green's slaughter of the Bulldog Monday night by a 60 to 35 score leaves Harvard only a half game out of a fourth place...
...plain south of Viipuri, Finland's Verdun, a sleepless, exhausted and incredibly brave Finnish army had for twelve days withstood a mighty offensive by the best & biggest army that Russia could put into the field. Not since Marshal Haig sent tens of thousands of Britons to their slaughter at the Somme in 1916 had a high command been so prodigal of its men. Stung by its failure, in two months of bitter warfare, to subdue the stubborn Finns, apprehensive that outside help might make the Finns unconquerable by spring, Soviet Russia had risked its morale, its prestige and perhaps...
...away from college to paint Indians, and who can make fifteen miles a day with Rogers' Rangers even though his stomach is plugged with a bullet. But even so, it's a fascinating journey with the Rangers, watching them form a human chain across the rapids, and burn and slaughter a village of Indians. Many of the outdoor shots are breathtaking in their Technicolored beauty, and the art of Spencer Tracy brings a credible human being into eventful, and thrilling, contact with the wilderness...
...cars open for is the Rodgers-Hartalbum that Columbia is bringing out next week. Dick Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ("There's A Small Hotel," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," and scads of other tunes) are in my opinion in the top three of tinsmiths writing today. "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue" from "On Your Toes" showed that their originality wasn't of the June-Moon type either. The album won't be swing, but it will be full of excellent and melodic jazz, skillfully conducted by Rodgers himself . . . Orchids to RCA Victor for one of the finest recording...