Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British had met one setback after another. The Argentines refused to trade their immense ($750 million) blocked sterling credit in Britain for the British-owned Argentine railroads, wanted to use part of it for British goods. Perón himself had demanded a 300% price hike on beef sold to Britain...
...just as bad. Used to be you could go into Thompson's and get two eggs, toast and a cup of scalding black coffee for 15?. Now it costs you 35?. Two sinkers and a cup of coffee is up from a nickel to 15?. A plate of beef stew used to sell for a dime: now it costs you 30? and it ain't got no meat...
...week California's Physicist Edwin M. McMillan reported that he had found a way to thwart relativity. His device: a frequency modulator (the same principle as in FM radio) which automatically adjusts the frequency of a cyclotron's kicks to the speed of its bullets. It will beef up California's new 184-inch cyclotron (to be completed by autumn) to 200-400 million electron volts...
Many a chain store, anxious to cash in on good will rather than quick profits, tried to hold the line. In the Midwest the giant Kroger chain (2,688 stores) boosted its prices on meat and butter only the amount of the lost Government subsidies: 7? a Ib. on beef, 15? on butter. But Kroger's able, friendly President Joseph B. Hall sadly admitted that the company has taken heavy losses in these items to hold the line even this much. It was also having a hard time replacing its depleted stocks at ceiling prices. Unless there was overall...
...denying the report of an increase in the price of a ham sandwich, the manager of Hazen's pointed out that ham prices had gone up less than beef but that customers, particularly at night, demanded hamburg. If customers asked for the less-costly product, he said he would not buy the more costly...