Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beautiful Chart. New York's Dorset Foods, Ltd., a canner of poultry and meats, last year introduced five low-calorie soups, recently added a line of "substance" low-calorie products, including beef stew, chicken fricassee and a chicken-vegetable dinner. Dietetic Food Co., Inc., which started producing foods for diabetics 26 years ago, now has a full low-calorie line, including candy, desserts, chewing gum and a new ice cream. Sales of high-protein foods, like meat, are up; protein-bread makers are also cashing in on the bonanza. Said an official of Ralston Purina, makers...
Rain fell last week on east Texas and scattered sections of west Texas. The rain, plus announcement of an $8,000,000 federal-aid program, brightened the spirits of drought-stricken Texas ranchers. The rush to ship cattle to the stockyards tapered off, and beef rose $1 to $4 per 100 lbs. But the drought was far from over. And when and if it does end, Texas' water problems will be far from solved...
...market. In Fort Worth, receipts soared last week to about 7,500 a day, twice the normal run. Some of the animals brought to market were so emaciated that they fell as they were driven into the chutes. Some registered Herefords are being sold as commercial-grade beef; some cattlemen are selling their foundation herds, the animals they would normally keep to produce next year's calves...
Town Without Water. All this spells financial disaster for some cattlemen, although there are many who have shored up their financial position out of the huge profits of recent years. Eventually, consumers all over the U.S. will feel the effects. Although beef prices are down at the butcher shops now because of the market glut, premature marketing and sale of foundation herds are likely to lead to serious beef shortages and high prices in the months ahead...
...eels: powdered beef or "gut of a hen, or almost anything, for he is a greedy fish...