Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Goes Up ... The steaks, roasts and other beef cuts that now constitute 50% of the average American's meat menu cost 11% more last month than they did a year ago. Pork is 16.5% higher; in many places, pork loin has risen from 590 a lb., to 790, and bacon costs as much as $1 a lb. As shoppers substituted chicken for beef and pork, poultry prices inevitably rose by 7% (current U.S. average price for fryers...
...high-protein diet, which included eggs, skimmed milk, ground beef, margarine, toast, tomato soup, catchup, green peas and applesauce...
...hour one recent morning while porters took a coffee break before loading the baggage. In Ireland a three-week-old strike of gravediggers, who demanded longer vacations, is forcing mourners to bury their own dead. In Australia, 100 Queensland packinghouse workers struck for three days because, they cornplained, the beef carcasses were "too hard" to bone; they forced the company to let its meat thaw longer. In West Germany, smart Hausfrauen no longer complain if a German cleaning woman fails to appear on the job; they get to work themselves and woo her back with flowers. In Tokyo, maids quit...
...began last week in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel-baseball's first "free agent" draft, which, in effect, stripped away the bargaining rights of the country's young hopefuls and put them on the block like so many sides of beef. To hear some of the clubs talk, it was the greatest boon to baseball since Happy Chandler returned to politics. "I've been pushing for this thing for 20 years," crowed the Cleveland Indians' vice president, Gabe Paul...
...Ralph Ortiz's Archaeological Find, No. 9, in which the sculptor did the excavator's work in advance; this abomination is composed of a crumpled French Provincial couch clotted with a gory semblance of mangled beef...