Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have long insisted on a low common price. The Germans, for internal political reasons, argue for a higher price reflecting their higher costs and lavish support of German farmers. Still, the ministers have set an optimistic July 1966 deadline for agreement on the remaining unsettled prices of sugar, rice, beef and milk...
...Beef on the Hoof. The crisis has sparked bitter criticism of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Food Minister, Chidambaram Subramaniam, but much of the problem lies in India's backward agriculture and age-old dietary habits. India's land produces only about half as much per acre as U.S. land, largely because of primitive farming implements and practices, lack of pesticides and fertilizer, soil exhaustion and uncertain water supply. Besides, India's burgeoning population-12 million new mouths per year-has simply outstripped the country's ability to produce enough food to feed...
...money to buy extra rice at exorbitant black-market prices. They also largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound in the state's lush tropical forests. And, though more Hindus discreetly eat meat, the vast majority in cow-rich India leave their beef on the hoof for religious reasons. Half of India's people are vegetarians, a fact that creates an especially heavy dependence on grain...
Spontaneous abortion in sheep and beef cattle seems an odd subject for study by a New York City pediatrician. But Dr. Alvin N. Eden of Wyckoff Heights Hospital has been studying it, and he thinks that his colleagues ought to do the same. The wriggly microbe, Vibrio fetus, which is one of the most common causes of animal abortions, he reports in the Journal of Pediatrics, is probably responsible for a similar, and hitherto generally unrecognized, venereal disease...
...years later; she called him a "Jewish Noel Coward." Suddenly Rose found himself at the starting line again. To Fanny's friends, she was America's top comedienne, but Billy was just Mr. Brice. Again Rose jumped, this time toward Broadway. In 1930 he produced Corned Beef and Roses. It was a loser from overture to finale. He rewrote it, renamed it Sweet and Low. Again it bombed. Again he rewrote it, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road for a nine-month run. Rose recouped the $75,000 it cost him to mount...