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Word: beef (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beef and pork prices in the Chicago and Minneapolis markets reached new highs this week as midwestern live stock rates showed no signs of a cutback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Raises Fall Board Rates | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...OEEC countries (notably excepting Italy and Greece), the end of the "dole" phase was in sight and the productive phase had begun in earnest. Western Germany was smiling and flexing its muscles as a result of strengthened currency and tempting food to buy with it-Italian tomatoes, Mexican canned beef, Portuguese beans, U.S. lard. Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful) when anyone asked him how things were going. Last week Johann was saying: "Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Corrective Lurch | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Sally Eilers again, even as a hungry widow; all the other players do all right, too, within the modest requirements of this kind of piece. The Cinecolor, as usual, is fine so long as the colors are low-keyed, but in open sunlight, all outdoors looks like a roast beef special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Easygoing James Bruce soon had headaches galore. Argentina had stopped payments on U.S. investments. Strict regulations worked against U.S. capital and business in Argentina. Last June the U.S. contributed a crusher: EGA hinted that unless Argentina stopped gouging its customers, EGA would buy no Argentine wheat or beef-in other words, Argentina would get no dollars through European financing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Hard Reality | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Last week Ambassador Bruce was back in Washington talking things over. Bargain buying by the U.S. Army of small lots of Argentine beef, lamb and turkey for use in Germany suggested a far from united economic front against Argentina. What went on? EGA, which holds the strings of the biggest purse, gave Ambassador Bruce the score. The EGA would not spend a dime of the U.S. taxpayer's money in Argentina until the Peron government gave some hard & fast promises to: 1) sell to the U.S. at world prices; 2 ) sell to Marshall Plan countries at world prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Hard Reality | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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