Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bulldogs may take their beef from dainty china service if a proposed plan to replace the metal trays used in Yale dining halls materializes...
...million down to ?250 million, a slash of 39%; prices will be allowed to rise in the marketplace accordingly. It means, Butler reckoned, that the food bill of every Briton will rise immediately by about 21? a week. Sample increases: milk from 14? to 15? a quart; stewing beef from 23? to 28? a pound; bread from...
While the Agriculture Department does not expect the farmer's price position to improve in coming months, it does not see any real relief for the consumer either. Last week, for example, it predicted that the price of beef and pork may show "material gains" by next fall because there is a decline in the number of animals now being fattened...
...Saskatchewan. An hour after the disease was reported, the U.S. clamped an embargo on Canadian meats and livestock, shutting off Canada's $100 million-a-year trade south of the border. Eastern Canadian provinces banned livestock shipments from the prairies. Business slumped at Western packing houses, and wholesale beef prices were driven down sharply...
...prices jumping at an average rate of 3% a month. Last week Peron finally changed course and-began to face the facts. In a somber speech to the nation he proclaimed a program of "inflexible austerity," of sacrifice, of less food and more work. For the famed Republic of Beef, the meatless day announced four weeks ago had seemed almost like a joke in poor taste. Now Peron decreed two meatless days each week, and to make the rule stick, he ordered butcher shops to shut down. Packing plants will also close one day a week, and on another...