Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glut arise? Prices were as high as $1 a dozen retail in 1969 and early 1970, causing many farmers to overorder new laying hens. Since high prices meant high profits, many outside investors-looking for the tax advantages that farming can offer-put their money into eggs. Early last year a new vaccine was swiftly eliminating Mareks disease, an affliction that used to wipe out 15% to 20% of the nation's hens every year. Besides, per capita egg consumption has remained virtually static at little more than 300 per person a year...
Because of regional rivalries in the egg business, farmers have not been able to agree about limiting the size of flocks to drive prices up again. Now, however, Congress may force eggmen...
Last week the Senate Agriculture Committee approved the egg industry adjustment act, which would require each producer to slaughter a percentage of his hens. The bloodletting could be ordered only after eggs had sold below the cost of production for three straight months, and only upon approval by two-thirds of the nation's producers in a referendum. Compliance would be enforced with fines of up to $5,000. Such drastic measures are warranted, argues Committee Chairman Herman Talmadge of Georgia, to avoid a rash of chicken-farm bankruptcies. "They have been selling eggs below the cost of production...
...handling the dramatic sword and cape. She began both writing and directing plays in high school, and has studied playwriting under William Alfred. The Bull Only Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime numbers as her fifth product. Beyond this, she has done extensive directing, including productions of Joe Egg and Look Back in Anger at the Loeb last year, and two one-acts, Black Comedy and The Public Eye, last fall. In May she returns to the Loeb to direct the Harvard Dramatic Club Production of Moliere's Imaginary Invalid...
...Jefferson emphatically asserted that the removal of a fertilized egg from the uterus at any time is the killing of a human being...