Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the winter decline in slaughtering, were coming down again. Pork packers were glum because of a poor Easter trade; a big New York pork plant closed last week, and hog prices sank to their lowest level ($19.50 per 100 Ibs.) since OPA's end. Because of abundant grain for feeding, this year's beef was also coming down, and was a better grade than last year's. At $24.60 per 100 Ibs., good steers were $1.50 below a month ago. Even lamb, forced to an alltime high partly by heavy losses in the winter storms...
...policy is of the same type as those usually issued to farmers for protection of wheat and grain fields. It came as a result of two weeks of cabled correspondence between Club officials and the London firm of William Garthwaite Limited, agents for Lloyds...
...year's end, when four-year-old whisky is expected to be plentiful, liquor men will face a big sales problem. During wartime, when aged whisky was scarce, distillers stretched the supply by blending it. (i.e., mixing it with grain alcohol). They plugged blends so well-and straights were so hard to get-that now six bottles of blended whisky are sold for every one bottle of straight (compared with a prewar ratio of one-for-one). Distillers will have to do more than cut blend prices; they will have to lure drinkers back to straight whisky, probably...
Also present: Richard Greene and Jeanne Grain as Lord and Lady Windermere, and Martita (Great Expectations) Hunt as the malicious Duchess of Berwick. Conspicuously absent in this Otto Preminger-directed revival: the sparkling style, pace and timing that made Wilde's plays amusing even at their emptiest...
...year: 1857; the place: Dublin's Synge Street. Mrs. Lucinda Shaw has gone off on a visit to County Galway, leaving her one-year-old son George Bernard (known as "Bob") in care of his father, George Carr Shaw, co-partner in the respectable grain firm of Clibborn & Shaw. Naturally, mother Shaw wants to know exactly what catastrophes are taking place in her absence, so dutiful father Shaw picks up his pen and briefs...