Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This tactic worked admirably during World War II in a similar situation on Ascension Island, involving sooty terns. Obviously convinced that one good tern deserves another, the birds multiplied so rapidly that they nearly took over Ascension, until the Air Transport Command began a program of egg-snatching...
...spicy tomato-paste sauce have been put on the market by Frito of New York, Inc. and the Lay Potato Chip Co., Atlanta. Price: 29? for a 3½-oz. package. For quick snacks, George A. Hormel & Co. has put on sale precooked pieces of ham wrapped in egg and breadcrumb mix and fastened on a stick. Price: 59? for a box of eight...
Shopping housewives had a pleasant surprise last week. Frying chickens and broilers were selling under 40? a lb. in many a store, down from about 55? a month ago. Prices of medium and small pullet eggs were also down at a time when egg and poultry prices usually rise...
...good news for shoppers was bad news for poultry-and-eggmen; there are too many chickens and eggs. Monthly chick output has soared to around 100 million from 91 million a year ago, and the farmers are getting only 24.8? a lb. for broilers compared to the postwar average of 31.1?. Monthly egg production is up to a record 4,545,000,000, some 15% above the postwar average, while farmers' prices dropped to an average 37.4? a dozen, from 50.2? a year...
Last week Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson summoned his 24-man Egg Advisory Committee to Washington to hear poultrymen's demands for support buying of both chickens and eggs. But after the meeting the committee announced that it "believes in selfhelp, leaving to the industry the solution of its own problems...