Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to the rapidly rising price of meat. The Government had refused to impose strict price controls on raw agricultural products even during last year's freeze. Last week, though, the President's Cost of Living Council (COLC) got a warning that rising meat prices, especially of beef, could by themselves foil Nixon's desire to lower the inflation rate to 3% by year's end. The bearer of those bad tidings was C. Jackson Grayson, chairman of the Price Commission, who, in a memo, urged the Administration seriously to consider putting meat on the hoof...
...only a day after the consumer price index for May showed that at retail they had fallen .7% below April. However, since it was based on a survey taken in the first week of May, the report was obsolete before it was issued. Over the past several weeks, wholesale beef prices have literally broken through the graph used to record their ups and downs by the Agriculture Department, and these increases are now pushing through to retail meat counters...
...town of Belle Fourche, S. Dak., donated 20,000 pounds of beef that was about to be barbecued as part of a civic celebration. At least 50 construction companies dispatched crews and heavy equipment to help clear away the debris. An all-night radio marathon in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., raised $25,000. The Boeing Airplane Co., which has construction under way at nearby missile sites, gave $10,000, and Boeing employees donated $50,000. About 50 morticians from up to 100 miles away worked together on the grim task of preparing bodies for burial. The First National Bank...
...building with a view over the port (impressively clean) and the Royal Palace (depressingly severe). The reason was simple. The U.S. Population Institute served a delicious free lunch there: marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring in fresh cream, tiny meat balls, thick slices of rare roast beef. To ask an environmentalist to dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full of cancer-causing aflatoxins. "Don't know why the Swedes...
...strong. The jobless rate in May held at a high 5.9% for the third straight month. More surprisingly, the wholesale price index shot up last month at an annual rate of some 6%, threatening uncomfortable retail rises later on. Wholesale food prices rose sharply after dropping for two months; beef on the hoof hit an alltime high. Industrial commodity prices, which are at the heart of the Phase II control program, showed no sign of dropping. Herbert Stein, President Nixon's chief economic adviser, concluded that no changes are yet necessary in the controls, but he also added...