Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effective. He had an ideal backdrop for his speech: Duluth, where Senator Hubert Humphrey's strongly pro-Stevenson Minnesotans cheered him to the echo. Some 900 Democrats slushed through the season's first snow to the National Guard Armory and cheerfully paid $10 a plate for roast beef and 50? for badges saying, "I'm still madly for Adlai." A jazz band played It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (also known as Be Sure It's True When You Say I Love You), and Hubert Humphrey himself introduced Candidate Stevenson as "the very...
Devaluation automatically raised the cost of imports; that was where Lonardi's proposed austerity came in. To smooth the transition and hold down inflation, the government for the time being planned to tax the more profitable exports, e.g., beef, and use the tax to subsidize the more vital imports, e.g., penicillin...
...switching to tabloid form and a broader news policy in an attempt to regain circulation (the Courier has plummeted to a little more than half its 1948 peak of 358,000). While some Negro publishers still make a fat living, they generally lack capital to modernize plants and beef up skimpy staffs...
...hesitated to give the order. Pork's troubles go too deep to be cured easily by price props. U.S. consumers are losing their taste for pork because 1) they are cutting down on fatty foods, and 2) they followed the advice of the Agriculture Department to eat more beef (which was a propaganda maneuver to raise beef prices) back in 1953. From the 1933-35 period to 1954, U.S. per-capita beef consumption jumped by some 24 lbs., to an estimated 79; pork consumption edged up by less than...
...BEEF-BACON SALES are soaring as a result of newspaper stories that the meat is one of President Eisenhower's favorites, is on his menu at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Armour says sales of beef bacon have shot up 30%, would have gone higher except that demand outran supply...