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...challenges of scarcity and rocketing prices are bringing out old-fashioned ingenuity along with the complaints, evoking a pioneer atmosphere in which acquiring victuals is once again an important matter even for the affluent. Kirsten Lumpkin, the wife of a Seattle construction man, bought a side of beef in company with some neighbors and has been canning her own fruit. "It's unsettling," she said last week while preparing to make sauerkraut for the first time in her life. "All of a sudden, eating has become sort of a focal point, and I think that...
...Brooklyn and The Bronx. Though they favor yachts, one captains a converted Coast Guard cutter, while another is suspected of navigating a lobster boat-long after the lobster season has ended. Not every mobster can afford to "suffer a sea change into something rich and strange." The less affluent Gallo brothers, still recovering from the decimation of their gang, have to be content to splash around in a swimming pool they have built in Brooklyn, where there is always the danger of running into a water...
Pushing through supermarket aisles thronged with anxious shoppers last week. Housewife Katie Wolff of Winnetka, Ill., an affluent Chicago suburb, was exasperated. "Nixon has lost control of things," she said. "Prices are so high we haven't had pork chops or steak in a month." Mrs. Joan Sheets of Los Angeles had the same complaint: "They tell us to eat less expensively, but just try finding a cheaper cut of meat. Even bologna is $1.30 a pound...
...Administration officials argue that they had little choice. Demand for U.S. soybeans and other feed grains has gone through the roof, largely because increasingly affluent foreigners are buying more meat, and overseas sources of feed have declined because of bad weather (see following story). As a result, domestic feed supplies have grown scarce, and prices have zoomed as grain farmers, speculators, wholesalers and other middlemen tried for the fattest prices they could get. In Georgia and Illinois, for example, soybean meal in the past year has leaped from $100 to $400 a ton, and fish meal has gone from...
...stock market struggling, Americans are wary of holding on to currency or investing in securities. Instead, some are caught up in an inflation-generated psychology of spending what they have on goods that seem better than money-and are putting their cash into gem stones, jewelry and gold. The affluent are also spending much for costly furs, with the result that mink coat prices are up 20% this year. Meanwhile, the increasingly wealthy Europeans and Japanese are spending their newly enriched currencies on more and more luxury goods, adding further pressures to demand-and to prices...