Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention. "We must get our own defense production program rolling in high gear," he said, "and we must find the way to do this without bringing on renewed inflation ... It means restrained and responsible actions by businessmen, farmers-and workers, too . . ." Later, after a $15-a-plate roast beef dinner, Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle had his try. The delegates obviously weren't interested in what he had to say. They chatted among themselves and paid so little attention that, at one point, DiSalle broke into his prepared speech and asked them to listen. The Transport Workers' bellicose Mike...
...kill, v. 25% in normal times. Even so, slaughtering has been running some 20% below last year, because there are not enough cheap animals to balance the high-priced steers. Result: the big packers are operating at such a low level that they have been losing money on beef for the first time in years. In effect, the packers obeying OPS are underwriting meat controls while black marketeers are making big profits...
Black Markets. But beef was another matter. Beef prices are still at their retail ceilings; supplies of many good cuts are short and, in some places, prime beef is simply unavailable. Despite the huge shipments of beef to market, big meat packers cannot buy their normal quotas of animals under OPS controls...
...leave their dog, Skippy, behind, giving him to a kindly neighbor boy. Last week a tattered, footsore and weary Skippy turned up in Morris, and took his accustomed place at the Fossen dinner table. Any doubt of Skippy's identity vanished when he passed up roast beef to gorge on lettuce and tomato salad with mayonnaise, long his favorite dish...
Tongue-Tied. In Carlsbad, N. Mex., the sheriff's office intercepted a letter which advised two prisoners charged with passing a phony check: "Smear your face with rosewater, roots and salt. Then cut open a beef tongue and write the names of opposition witnesses inside and bury it, and no judge will dare to convict...