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...Panamanian freighter El Corral and onto Pier 27 in Belgium's port of Antwerp last week tramped 867 head of Texas cattle−on a one-way trip. They were the forerunners of a U.S. attempt to successfully export U.S. beef on the hoof to Europe, which has long had a prejudice against more easily transported frozen beef. The cattle were not the only American arrivals in European ports. U.S. farm exports are pouring into the Common Market at so fast a pace that they have become a major point of discord at Kennedy Round meetings between...
...retailers' share has steadily increased to a record high of 24.90. Cattlemen blame this disparity on what they angrily call "supermarket barons." In fact, supermarkets buy in such large volume that they are practically able to name their own price for beef on the hoof. Says John Fryer, research director of the 75,000-member meat packers' union: "If the A. & P. comes to Swift and says, 'We want a million pounds of wieners at 100 a pound' and Swift says 'No,' then A. & P. takes its order elsewhere." Such critics insist that...
...cattle from a helicopter, feeds and breeds them with the aid of computers, waters them from electrically warmed troughs and sometimes fattens them on beer. But while he pampers his animals, the cattleman himself is having a tough time. Last week the Chicago price of prime beef on the hoof fell to 22? per lb., the lowest since 1946, and cattlemen discarded their usual suspicion of Government programs long enough to cry for federal aid. Washington responded quickly. The State Department signed agreements with Australia and New Zealand to limit their exports of meat...
...living room," according to one domestic counselor, but "Let's clean up the living room"). One of the most fictional characters in modern fiction is Jeeves, and his creator, P. G. Wodehouse. mourns the extinction of that noble breed of "butlers who weighed 250 pounds on the hoof, butlers with three chins and bulging abdomens, butlers with large gooseberry eyes and that austere butlerine manner which has passed so completely away...
...only consolation seems to be that the slump is forcing brokerage houses to streamline operations, cut out the dead wood and seek new efficiency. Said one stock salesman: "I got into this business during the boom years. Now for the first time I have to get out and hoof it, and, by golly. I'm learning to sell. I hope I'll be able to say it was the best thing that ever happened to me. But for now, it hurts too much to smile...