Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mess kit was a quarter-inch of greasy beef stew and lima beans. "If it wasn't for the food my mother sent me, I'd starve," the recruit said. "Eight lima beans. Count them, eight." The mess corporal was sorry: "I would like to give them more to eat, but there isn't enough to go around. I got to feed 15 or 20 more than my ration every...
...rollbacks. Admitted Loren C. Bamert, president of the American National Cattlemen's Association: "I raise cattle, and I don't think these regulations will hurt me. Maybe some of the other gentlemen can tell you how they will be hurt." They couldn't. With beef at 152% of parity, asked one newsman, how could the meatmen complain about the rollback ordered by Di Salle? President Allan Kline of the American Farm Bureau Federation answered the question with a ten-minute dissertation on the American way of life. Cried Agriculture Committeeman Cooley, one of the guests: "You gentlemen...
...Jack Leland of Charleston's News & Courier). Whatever his specific job, each was intensely aware of the business and farm booms still accelerating in the South. All spoke of the rising standard of living for both Negroes and whites; the continuing switchover to diversified crops, the rise in beef raising on improved grasslands, the increase of tobacco poundage on limited acreage, the tobacco industry's efforts to sell abroad and the fast growth of chemical and textile manufacturing...
Only two weeks ago, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston outlawed "consumer subsidies." This week, with angry cattlemen threatening to cut beef production because of price controls, Mobilization Chief Charles Wilson asked Congress for authority to pay subsidies to cattle growers...
Price officials glibly estimated that their day's work would roll beef prices back to pre-Korea levels, save housewives an estimated $700 million a year. Lower prices should be seen in butcher shops by Aug. 1, they said, and by Oct. 1 beef should be down about 10? a Ib. In New York and other cities, beef prices are the highest they have ever been, and there is also a shortage of beef, although the U.S. cattle population is 2% to 3% higher than last year. Di Salle's men said that even after they had rolled...