Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrong. Eddie Williams, buyer of the prize steer, sticks to his figure of $1,250 a pound for choice top sirloin. He estimates that he will get roughly 34 pounds of top sirloin from the animal. But Williams' calculation does leave out the revenue from beef ribs, chuck, loin butt, etc. which he will sell at regular prices; this should come to nearly...
...steaming Amazon basin snakes sloughed their skins and downriver at Belém (pronounced Beleng) a two weeks' festival in honor of Our Lady of Nazareth, observed by the eating of barbecued beef, drinking rum aged in coconuts and dropping contributions into Our Lady's donkey cart, had just ended. South on the Hump, in the states of Pernambuco and Baía, the spring rains brought up tender green sprouts of sugar cane and tobacco, promising record crops...
...which had been controlled for so long, must undergo certain violent wrenchings as it was freed. Meat was typical. When decontrolled, roasts and steaks doubled and tripled in price to $1.20, and up, a pound. But when consumers refused to buy, prices came down. By last week, prime roast beef was down in the 55-10-65? range-and still falling. The demand for meat simply had not been as great, at high prices, as butchers thought...
...estimated that barely a fifth of normal imports crossed the frontier from Argentina. In La Paz the price of butter tripled. Bolivian officials, loth to antagonize their big neighbor further, kept quiet, but a La Paz housewife said: "When I saw Villarroel hanged, I never thought our beef had been hanged...
...Tuesday, decontrolled meat prices staged the biggest one-day advance in history. But lower-grade beef and average prices soon began to decline under the stampede of animals to stockyards. By week's end, average beef prices were $18 to $23, compared with a former top ceiling of $20.25; hog prices were $22.50 to $23.50. Old ceiling...