Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chorus of mournful noise is issuing from the cattle-feeding pens of Colorado, Texas and the Middle West-and not just from the steers awaiting slaughter. The feed-lot operators are moaning too, because a consumer rebellion against beef and soaring costs of fattening cattle threaten to trim their profits to the bone. Says an official of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association: "A lot of boys are going to belly...
...trouble traces to the same rise in beef prices that brought prosperity to the feed lots in previous years. During 1973, budget-conscious housewives switched to more economical sources of protein, such as chicken, beans and cottage cheese. Per capita beef consumption dropped for the first time since the mid-1960s, from 85 lbs. in 1972 to only 80 lbs. last year. The slackening demand led retailers to lower prices about 7% from last September's highs, and also to cut back orders from meat-packing houses. Although retail prices are rebounding, orders to packers are still down...
Fattened Costs. It has not worked that way recently. The feed-lot operators bought the steers that are now going to slaughter last September when retail beef prices were at record levels and ranchers were asking-and getting-as much as 60? per lb. for steers. The cost of fattening the animals has about doubled in the past year, so that for calves that go on feed this month it will be about 50? per lb. This surge results mainly from zooming prices for corn, the main ingredient in a feeder steer's diet. But packers last week were...
Three coaches, including Vermont's Chop LaCasse, were not allowed into the banquet because they did not have tickets. It seems last year a number of rowdies snuck in for some free roast beef. This year every member of the Harvard team had tickets. Plead as they might, the three coaches could not get in. Disgusted with his third place finish, LaCasse took the other coaches out for a night on the town. They had three Harvey Wallbangers each at Mr. Up's in Middlebury, then repaired to LaCasse's favorite bar in Burlington. After that, the finished...
Eliot House students just shook their heads in disbelief at brunch Sunday morning. No, this time it wasn't the corned beef hash, looking as worn out as the pocket of my ten-year-old baseball glove, that shocked everyone. Yale had beaten the hockey team. Yale, the school that had to be beaten to avenge the November football massacre. Yale, the team that had lost seven in a row. Impossible. It didn't happen to Cleary's invincible crusaders that had not lost since exams...