Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Argentines woke up one morning last week to find that, overnight, second-grade beef had shot up from 5 to 8 pesos a kilo, cigarettes from 1 peso to 1.50 for a pack of ten, cheap rum from 11 to 16 a bottle.* The rocketing prices were the result of a major overhaul of the nation's economy by the members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos...
...peso is worth around six cents. Though the increases horrified local residents, dollar-bearing tourists still found it possible to regard beef at 25 cents a pound and rum at $1 a bottle with equanimity...
...airy, well-lighted public rooms. Among the new features: a blossom-stuffed conservatory, a mural-lined children's dining-room, a small music salon where traveling musicians can practice. In the hold, to dine & wine the passengers on the six-day crossing, were eight tons of prime beef, 60,000 eggs, 5,000 bottles of champagne...
...Ravinia's once skeptical executive committee, crème de la crème had become solid roast beef...
...next few months will tell whether the vaccination campaign has fully achieved its purpose. Quarantine, inspection and disinfection will continue. If in two years there is no further outbreak of aftosa, there is a good chance that the U.S. ban on importation of Mexican beef -which once totaled half a million head of livestock a year-will be lifted...