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HOUSEWIVES can expect more beef at retail counters in the next few weeks as the summer's grass-fed steers start to market. Farm experts expect U.S. beef supplies this year to hit 73.5 Ibs. per capita, the highest in 44 years. But beef prices have about hit bottom. Farm Economist L. H. Simerl of the University of Illinois thinks they will hold steady for the next twelve months...
While wheat production has been rising, per capita consumption has been falling -due at least in part to the nation's preoccupation with the bulging waistline (see BUSINESS). In 1910, U.S. citizens used an average of 211 Ibs. of wheat flour apiece. In 1952, they used only 130 Ibs. So far this year, shipments abroad have fallen more than 100 million bushels below the same period of last year. Chief reasons: 1) shortages created by World War II have largely abated; 2) wheat-hungry nations do not have enough dollars to buy American wheat; and 3) the Government-supported...
...Ideal Food." The new emphasis on the U.S. waistline has forced some food producers into hasty counteraction. Dieting has already helped cut per capita consumption of wheat flour from 157 Ibs. pre-war to 130 Ibs. a year, and the worried American Bakers Association is spending a good part of its $1,000,000 advertising budget to plug bread as a reducing food. Annual potato consumption dropped from 132 Ibs. per capita in 1939 to 104 Ibs. last year...
Among the hardest hit has been the beleaguered dairy industry. A dairy-association survey showed that: I) at any given time, about one-quarter of the U.S. population is on a diet; 2) the first thing dieters are likely to give up is milk products. Per capita consumption of whole milk and butter has dropped 19% since the war. But consumption of low-calorie skim milk and nonfat dry milk has risen as much as 136%. To fight the diet menace, the dairy farmers will spend between $6 million and $10 million in the next year, touting milk...
...thorough examination and discovered they were in worse shape than they had imagined. Almost one-third of North Carolina's 100 counties were without hospitals, the state stood eighth highest in maternal death rate, tenth in infant mortality, third from the bottom in number of doctors per capita. North Carolina medical schools were turning out only 35 doctors a year for in-state practice...