Word: bacons
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...lettering identifying it as "The President's Daily News Briefing." The clouds gathering outside were as nothing compared to the scowl forming on Richard Nixon's face. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler was summoned. Nixon had just read a digest of a column by Newhouse newspapers Correspondent Don Bacon that noted occasions on which Ziegler has planted questions with White House reporters on the eve of Nixon's news conferences. In 23 years of public life, the President said, he had never resorted to planted questions. "Never do that again," Nixon ordered...
...price of corn-fed animals. Housewives are likely to find chicken prices rising in about five or six months. The record numbers of pigs already fattened may actually depress pork prices this winter and next spring, but agronomists predict that higher feed costs could drive up the price of bacon and other cuts of pork by next fall. Beef prices could also rise next fall...
Longshoremen in Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, meanwhile, refused to handle Britain-bound cargo, and other dockers seemed likely to follow their example. In Northern Ireland, dockers attacked fishermen who had been running supplies of Irish bacon and eggs into Britain, dumping the goods into harbors and scattering them on beaches. As supplies of bananas, oranges, grapes and vegetables dwindled all over the United Kingdom, prices rose; some meat cost as much as a shilling (12?) a pound more. Dutch and Belgian truck farmers and shippers complained of losing millions of dollars. The government could, of course, use troops...
...whether the strike could last the 40 days that some labor leaders have mentioned, but food is not an immediate problem. Shortages in some meats, including lamb and beef, could show up within a fortnight, but Britain has a two-month supply of such items as butter, wheat, bacon, cheese and sugar. The country is in less danger of going hungry than of falling back into economic straits. A long strike could shut down steel mills for lack of ore, then close auto plants whose exports earned ? 1 billion last year. Already the strike is bottling up exports worth...
There was a time when they were as ubiquitous as victory gardens, rationing coupons, or the vats of bacon grease that mothers used to collect as part of the war effort. In World War II, nearly every schoolchild saved his nickels and dimes for Government Defense Savings Stamps to paste in a book toward the day when he could purchase a $25 war bond. In the middle of the war, the nation raised as much as $540 million a year from the stamp program...