Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern Seaboard supermarkets last week, bargain-hungry housewives bought choice sirloin steak at 69? a Ib. and heavily marbled porterhouse at 79?-and impatiently demanded more when supplies temporarily ran short. Out on the broad Midwest ranges, cattlemen were not so happy. Beef prices have been sliding for months, are expected to stay low most of this year. On ten major Midwestern markets from Denver to Chicago, grass-fed steers that brought 28½? per Ib. in May sold for only 23? in December. In Kansas City, choice cattle slipped from 31? per Ib. in midsummer to 27¾? last...
...Detroit, which was fitted out for the occasion with an 18th century French motif by Paris Designer Jacques Frank. It cost something over $250,000 to entertain the 1,270 guests who ate up, among other things, 5,000 finger sandwiches, 2,160 scrambled eggs, 100 Ibs. of corned beef hash, drank 480 bottles of Cuvée Dom Perignon (1949) and 720 bottles of hard liquor, and danced through the night to Meyer Davis' society orchestra, flown in from New York. By Detroit standards, Charlotte Ford's coming-out party was a dazzling spectacle; by any other...
While FTC thinks it is up to the consumer himself to be on guard against deceptions, it does not believe that the consumer can do the whole job. The Bureau of the Budget has approved an increase in FTC's 1961 budget to permit it to beef up its present staff of 740, step up prosecutions and enforcement work...