Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must seek the approval from the Secretary of Agriculture for every limitation it plans in that field. At present farm prices cannot be touched until they reach one hundred ten per cent parity. So far this obstacle has tied OPA's hands so tightly that, although beef, cattle, and lamb are now selling at better than one hundred twenty per cent parity, Henderson has not been able to touch them. Faced with the greatest inflation threat in our history, the Administration still confronts a stone wall in the Department of Agriculture, which holds that prices must go still higher...
...Beef on the range is abundant, but steers in the fattening pens are 19% below last year. For one thing, the Army is willing to pay top prices for sound if stringy range cattle. For another, the beef-corn ratio is too low-feeders are afraid the cost of fattening would be more than the beef would bring. Even though there is no price ceiling for steers, the packers are holding the bids down to a level where they can break even when they resell the steers as meat. And that level is too low to make fattening profitable with...
...Retail price ceilings have been clapped on lamb, which was exempted last April because it was then so far below parity. When there was not enough beef and pork to go around, housewives took lamb, bid up the price so fast that Leon Henderson thought...
...Government buying is heaviest in ham, corned beef and other cured meats. The public will have to learn to eat more fresh pork and like it. Curing facilities are limited, so there will be a glut of fresh-killed pigs when the fall crop of shotes comes to market in October...
...party moved into the dining room. The White House gold-and-silver service flashed in the noon sun. Tables were spread with platters of jellied salmon, jellied vegetable rings, hot chicken sandwiches, roast beef, a mountainous wedding cake frosted with signs of the Zodiac, doves and a big American eagle. Corks popped from magnums of champagne. President Roosevelt made a little speech...