Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday. The President's appetite continued to be good, and at breakfast he asked for, and got, a strip of his favorite beef bacon. But his doctors restricted him to a rigid 1,600-calorie-a-day diet to keep his weight down. During the day two hospital orderlies lifted Ike to a new hospital bed that can be raised and lowered from the floor by an electric motor. The apparatus will make it easier for the President to get in and out of bed when he is allowed to walk. Lieut. Knox read to him from Sir Arthur...
MEAT PRICES WILL DROP this winter. Record slaughters and recent drops in wholesale hog prices have cut the retail price of pork chops by 6%, loin roast by 10%, bacon 2%, ham 5%, with more reductions in prospect straight through until next March. Beef prices, which have been rising, will follow the trend, are expected to start dropping next month...
...railroad bell, summoning the other guests at the ranch-Major General Howard Snyder, the presidential physician, Acting Press Secretary Murray Snyder, and George Allen, jester to Presidents-to Ike's breakfast. As usual, the bill of fare was robust: eggs fried sunny side up, rashers of beef bacon, sausages, and steaming mugs of coffee. At the breakfast table, the President was asked when he intended to drive back to Denver. Right away, said Ike: he was in a hurry, and he would leave his valet, ex-Sergeant John Moaney, behind to clean up. At 6:45 a.m., the presidential...
...that much of the general price adjustment . . . has taken place." Despite all the outcry, flexible supports seem to be working for some crops. The once huge stocks of dairy products have been whittled down to size (TIME, April 25). With a boost from the Government through a low-grade-beef buying program, the beef producers recovered from the worst of their price slides...
...paying farmers some $500 million a year to plant grass and cover crops rather than commercial crops. Farm economists were quick to point out that this plan, like almost all farm plans, has a loophole for farmers. Farmers could graze cattle on the idle land, and by increasing beef production would put a downward pressure on beef prices...