Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 50 years of cradle-to-grave welfare statism, little Uruguay is tottering on the brink of bankruptcy. The country is rich in wheat and beef but hardly rich enough to afford such goodies as 100% pensions at age 55, a 30-hour work week, and 44 days of paid vacation each year for many workers. And so in the past five years the peso has skidded from 9? to 1.6? on the free market (the official rate has been abandoned altogether). Thus far this year, inflation has soared 45% while the foreign debt has grown to a staggering...
...this tedious mishmash only Peter Bull, as Sergeant Buzfuz, shows an authentic Dickensian flair. Like a Daumier-lawyer print brought to life, he knows the precise satirical boiling point where caricature reveals character, where broadness of humor acquires the beef of wit. He is an estimable and melancholy measure of the show that might have been...
...tour this happy city at night." But people stay away from nightclubs, theaters and restaurants. The thudding propaganda in the shows is one reason; the food and drink are another. A daiquiri runs $1.10, and the once-famed Cuban rum approaches the undrinkable. A sinewy little beef filet goes for $10 at the official exchange rate, and red snapper for $4.50 a plate. "It's Stalin-style economics carried to the ultimate," says one foreign visitor. "If you can strip the consumer economy of its buying power, then you can plow your resources into heavy machinery and infrastructure...
...going to carve roast beef with his Ronson!" gasps the sloe-eyed young thing in a recent ad for Ronson Corp. "Isn't that a bit much for a little cigarette lighter?" Of course it is, but that shows how much she knows about him - or Ronson. He's going to slice the roast with his Ronson Carve 'n' Slice electric knife, just as he shaves with a Ronson shaver, shines shoes on a Ronson electric buffer, and brushes his teeth with a Ronson electric toothbrush...
...upstart company that has successfully applied the new technology to this cordwood is four-year-old Iowa Beef Packers of Denison, Iowa Already highly automated, Iowa Beef in November will open a new plant in Dakota City, Neb., that will apply a complete assembly line to beef cattle The carcass will be put on a moving assembly line the minute the animal is slaughtered. In quick operations, the hide will be yanked off, the entrails and carcass dropped on separate conveyor belts and every part claimed by different workers along the line. Such imaginative techniques already in use have given...