Word: broiler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most popular Democrat in the country, yet he sometimes seems strangely isolated. One day last week he stood alone in the kitchen of his house in McLean, Va., turning a couple of steaks in the broiler. His red-checked shirt was open to the waist of his khaki slacks, revealing a thick mat of hair, now graying. The huge house echoed with memories, but now it was empty and still. Kennedy's wife had been living in Boston, away from the family for more than a year, and his children were at Cape Cod for the summer...
...billion chicken industry. Some 190 companies, or 100 fewer than two decades ago, raise and sell the birds; the four largest firms account for only about 20% of the business. The nation's biggest producer, North Carolina's Holly Farms (weekly output: nearly 5 million broilers) is a subsidiary of Memphis-based Federal Co., a large flour miller, but other big companies have been unable to make a go of chicken raising. Ralston Purina, once No. 1 in the business, and Pillsbury both dropped out of the broiler game in the 1960s...
Somewhat surprisingly, this disorganized industry has a record of technological innovation. Because of improvements in feed and genetics, a broiler now takes only seven weeks to go from egg to slaughterhouse, less than half the time it took to reach eating size a generation ago. At Connecticut's Arbor Acres Farm, geneticists foresee a six-week broiler by the early 1980s...
Today, U.S. chicken consumption is at an alltime high. But so is output: some 3.3 billion broilers, or 40 Ibs. per capita, will be produced this year. Prices are falling: last week, at a convocation of poultrymen in Springfield, Mass., William Haffert, editor of Broiler Industry and other trade journals, predicted "39? specials in the late fall." Many companies will probably lose money in the next six months...
...moving up again. Farmers throughout the Midwest have been withholding their wheat from the market; they accused the Agriculture Department of depressing prices by issuing harvest forecasts that were too high. George Watts, a poultry industry spokesman, told the House Agriculture Committee that unprofitable prices had forced a large broiler producer to close its Tennessee plant, destroy 800,000 fertilized eggs and smother 300,000 newborn chicks. About 1,000 Western cattlemen threatened to withhold beef from market. The tactics were reminiscent of those that farmers used to protest President Nixon's second price freeze last summer...