Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strip Tease. In Seattle, Butcher Tony Travelli, tired of saying "No," pointedly installed a lamb's skeleton in his showcase...
...Example: in the summer of 1943 the ceiling price on corn was so low and the price floor on hogs so high that it was more profitable to use corn to fatten pigs than to sell it. Result: a large hog population, but no pork on the butcher's rack and an acute shortage of feed for Eastern dairy cows.) Weather Means Everything. With farm groups last week - at Omaha, Min neapolis, Yakima, Wash. - Anderson made a highly favorable, sense-making impression, discussing how to work out a sys tem of price relationships that would provide incentives...
Large cities felt the meat shortage as never before. New York City seemed to have the largest problem, and as usual made the loudest noise. Hundreds of its butcher shops closed. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers still ate well-in restaurants. But many more did not. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia screamed at Washington: "You can't feed headlines to children!" He proposed that restaurant eaters be made to give up red ration points for meat served to them. Said the OPA of the Mayor's scheme: "Too late...
Down to Earth. In Manhattan, a hard-pressed butcher set out a sign : "What Have I Got? I Got Cow's Feet...
...result, he said, packers are now squeezed so tightly between high ceilings for meat on the hoof and comparatively low ceilings for meat on the butcher's block that they are losing money on every pound of pork and beef. Thus, with the greatest cattle herds roaming the ranges in U.S. history, there is no incentive for packers to slaughter them. Sadly, Thomas E. Wilson, board chairman of Wilson & Co., one of the Big Four in meatpacking, agreed. Unless something is done at once, he predicted, the Federal Government will have to take over the packing industry...