Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University students will help stock a Christmas ship destined for Scotland as all major dining halls, with the exception of the Medical School refectory, strike butter and wheat products from their menus tomorrow...
...which the appeal goes forth. "The Good Road" plays before "invitation" audiences of people with either means or influence. Furthermore, the public figures who lend it the strength of their names include, in addition to chairman Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, both the moneyed such as the New York Stock Exchange's Emil Sehram and the politically entrenched such as Senators Arthur Capper and Alexander Wiley as well as Presidential adviser John R. Steelman. MRA is out to win the minds of the policy-shapers and the public-opinion leaders. Its great vitality renders it worth the watching...
Tight Belts. The majority of U.S. cattle raisers are not so fortunate. Worried by the grain prices-and anxious to cash in on high meat prices-cattlemen have depleted their herds. Breeding stock as well as steers have been slaughtered. Result: the total of U.S. cattle has dropped to 76 million, down 3,000,000 in a year. This has saved grain for Europe, but it will mean much less meat for the U.S. next year. Furthermore, the production of beef, which rises and falls in a regular seven-year cycle, is now on the downgrade and will slide till...
...first press conference, Sayre gave a little homily drawn from his own career. Recalling that he was of New England Puritan stock, he said: "We could use a lot of the Puritan precepts right now, particularly that of work." More productivity-as distinguished from more production-was a big part of the answer to inflation. Said he: "I don't believe any of us are working as hard as we can or ought to under the circumstances...
Golden Earrings (Paramount) must have been intended as quite a novelty. Audiences were to thrill to the spectacle of a Dietrich Without Glamor: her famous legs lost in gypsy petticoats, her looks in gypsy greasepaint, her trick accent reduced to gypsy gutturals barely distinguishable from stock-company wigwam banter...