Word: veal
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With eggs cut out of his diet, the boy "became very clear mentally, rose to the head of his class and became captain of the football team." His disbelieving mother tested him with a veal cutlet, breaded in an egg mixture. After dinner, the boy said: "If I didn't know that I never eat eggs any more, I'd say that I felt just the way I used to when I was eating eggs...
...Churchill party from a fund-raising dinner where he had already faced seafood in aspic, petite marmite, filet mignon, stuffed artichokes, potatoes au gratin, chiffonade salad and baked Alaska. Somehow the President managed to make a respectable stab at the Embassy's consomme, Dover sole, saddle of veal, potatoes duchesse, cauliflower and charlotte pralinee. It was at this semipublic occasion-there were 16 British and American officials present-that Secretary of State Dean Acheson chose to lecture the Prime Minister on Britain's lackadaisical attitude toward the European Defense Community and toward settlement of her disputes with Iran...
...balance the French budget without raising taxes. At first, Pinay did remarkably well (TIME, April 21 et seq.), but by last week his "save-the-franc" campaign had fallen afoul of man and nature. Foot-and-mouth disease, raging in central France, had ravaged cattle herds, sent beef and veal prices soaring. A hot, rainless summer reduced butter and cheese production, ripened a grape harvest so abundant that the bottom fell out of the wine market. Rearmament cutbacks produced spotty unemployment in the engineering trades; French labor unions threatened new demands for wage increases. With
There was another obstacle. Under the law, the prices of beef, lamb and veal, already well above parity, could be controlled now; but feed, selling below parity, cannot be controlled. If meat controls were slapped on, feed prices would still be free to rise. Actual meat production would be cut. The hard fact was that meat would stay high just as long as the U.S. housewife kept buying it at the present rate. The only real way to bring meat down was to eat less...
Parity last week was so high that only seven commodities were priced above it: cotton, rice, flue-cured tobacco, wool, beef cattle, lambs and veal calves...