Word: beef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food (and rents) the boosts were big and fast. It was meat that gave the spectacular example of supply & demand. In the first day of free trade at the Chicago stockyards, prime beef jumped to $22 a hundredweight (OPA ceiling: $18), hogs were up to $18.50 (ceiling: $14.85). Then the farmers, hurrying to cash in on the high prices, began to pour in cattle by the thousand. One day alone brought in 20,000 hogs, greatest number in six months...
...Beef and hog prices sagged. By week's end, many steers were bringing only 50? a hundredweight above last week's OPA ceilings. Hog prices were down to within 50? to $1.40 of ceilings. And before long, prices will feel the effect of the grass-fed beef which will soon start moving off the ranges. The big packers were still buying little. They were afraid of losing their subsidies if OPA comes back. And they intended to wait for the lower prices that would surely come if cattle continued to pour...
...stewardess on the Grace Line. Joe was divorced from the first Mrs. Curran. The current Mrs. Curran is "the best cook in the world." Joe's favorite is Spanish rice. When he is at the office he eats at the Port Cafeteria around the corner, dining on corned beef & cabbage and strawberry ice cream sundaes with whipped cream...
...irony West Coast people saw in Herbert Hoover's food-hunting trek, a ragged, famished youngster in a Colombian cartoon begged for "a penny, madam, for the poor little European children who are so hungry!" Colombians, crimped by their ever-present transport problem, were forced to fly beef to their upland capital. At first they offered Hoover only coffee; later they considered relinquishing 8,000 tons of wheat promised by Canada. Ecuador, usually short on wheat, had a bumper rice crop; for 650,000 bags, which sell within Ecuador for $7 apiece wholesale, Hoover...
Rhoda Wenger was fed through nasal tubes. To find foods that her stomach would accept, dietitians tried everything: vitamins in liquid form, juices, beef broth. Sometimes the formula was changed several times...