Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While farm prices dropped 10% and farm income 7% (to $13 billion), it was still the seventh best year for farmers-and they were a long way from disaster. One cattleman, for example, who went to Washington to plead for support prices for beef, said that the drought and falling prices had caused him to lose $100,000 in 1953; if that went on for another three or four years, said he, he would be broke...
...took Debussy ten years to finish his score. Then, in 1902, it had its first performance, and it made Debussy's reputation. Too delicate to qualify as operatic roast beef, Pelléas easily won a place in the repertory as a savory for connoisseurs. As such, last week, it was served up at Manhattan's Met after an absence of four seasons. It was the Met's best performance of the season...
...Papa . . . No Uncle Sam." U.S. forces were too weak in body and supplies to launch such an attack. Their two daily meals at dawn and twilight consisted mostly of sticky globs of rice and a few slivers of salmon and beef. In between, they sampled everything from roots and berries to mules and monkeys. Wrote one G.I.: "That monkey meat is all right until the animal's hands turn up on a plate." Beset by dysentery, dengue fever and malaria, badgered by enemy planes and artillery, blocked off from all aid, the men nursed their back-to-the-wall...
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...made a lot of us "cattle producers happy in doing the job the American Meat Institute has failed us in- that of informing the consumer on the "why" of high beef prices, which the institute could help solve in educating the housewife to ask for commercial cuts of beef. Our cattle operation has lost money for two years, we have no oil wells, and we'd rather go broke than see Benson sold down the river and the Government mess up all competition and enterprise with price supports. Secretary of Agriculture Benson is our nomination for TIME...