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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both bills would cut into the heart of Price Stabilizer Michael Di Salle's most ambitious plans by prohibiting further rollbacks in meat prices. This was in response to the clamor of cattlemen. Di Salle protested that if Congress held to its position, U.S. consumers would have to pay $2.5 billion more a year for goods and food...
...midst of the cattlemen's fury over his price rollbacks on beef, Price Stabilizer Mike Di Salle went to a University of Denver banquet, complained after taking only a couple of nibbles of his sirloin: "I just can't stand steak any more" (see BUSINESS...
...dark-paneled room in Chicago's Saddle & Sirloin Club last week, Price Boss Michael V. Di Salle faced a crowd of 250 angry cattlemen and told them what's what on the subject of beef controls. Six months ago, said he, cattlemen had assured him that if beef prices were left uncontrolled, they would level off. By April, livestock prices had soared another 12%, and the total rise up to the present since January 1950 to 53% (v. only 14% for all foods). Said Di Salle: "Under these circumstances, we were forced to come through with a program...
...jumped a dozen meatmen to protest livestock controls and price rollbacks. The American way, said one feeder angrily, was through the law of supply & demand. Snapped Di Salle: "It's called the law of supply & demand when the price is going up, but everyone hollers for supports when the price goes down...
...grade beef at low enough prices; instead, they were buying grass-fed animals straight from the ranges. Even with the gradual return to normality, the trouble was far from over; feeders were still not buying animals for fattening and sale in the fall. No one could tell whether Mike Di Salle's controls would keep beef flowing to the dinner tables or bring shortages...