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Canned U.S. horse meat has long been a staple item in Vienna's food shops. Recently Viennese have been buying more of it because butcher shops have had no fresh meat. But only the Communists understood the situation. The Communist Sport-Tagblatt am Montag explained...
Facing the storm, most butchers professed to find no appreciable change in their trade. Said a Kansas City butcher: "They're all hollering, but they're all buying." Others admitted sales had dropped off, in some cases 35% to 50%. In Los Angeles, 34 small butchers were forced to close. But prices did not budge...
...Beverly Hills butcher advertising himself as "the Tiffany of the Meat World," displayed expensive steaks on red, amber, silver and blue Cellophane cushions...
...next day a woman customer grinned shyly at Butcher Hartkopf and said: "You sure hit me right on the head...
Soon the house was swarming with celebrators. Jangling telephones brought in better & better news. Hero-worshiping neighbors crowded around as Duplessis sat in a corner chain-smoking and reading telegrams of congratulations. "We goes up!" bellowed a little butcher by the name of Dollar Bacon, "Maurice is the best we ever had. For French, English, Polish and every kind of peoples, he is the best. Gosh, that Maurice...