Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...although OPA Boss Paul Porter guessed "at or near June 30 levels." But lamb feeders, cut off from a $36 million Government subsidy, were sure their product would have to jump at least 5? a lb. Beef feeders, still smarting under similar subsidy treatment, figured 1#162; a Ib. Meanwhile, meat producers frantically rushed their crops to market (see BUSINESS...
Until June 30, OPA had held the price of cattle hides to 15½? a Ib. When ceilings came off, U.S. hide prices raced to catch up with world prices, went as high as 27? before the old ceilings were clamped on again 25 days later. Despite OPA's interim warning to buyers, 900,000 hides were bought in the hectic free market...
Many a chain store, anxious to cash in on good will rather than quick profits, tried to hold the line. In the Midwest the giant Kroger chain (2,688 stores) boosted its prices on meat and butter only the amount of the lost Government subsidies: 7? a Ib. on beef, 15? on butter. But Kroger's able, friendly President Joseph B. Hall sadly admitted that the company has taken heavy losses in these items to hold the line even this much. It was also having a hard time replacing its depleted stocks at ceiling prices. Unless there was overall...
...true that our food here in England is dull, uninteresting and inadequate. It is true that it becomes sickening to live for years on 7 oz. of fat (including all butter, margarine & lard) and less than 1 Ib. of meat a week. ... It is even true that over a period of years our diet is inadequate to maintain proper fitness and resistance to disease. Add to this fuel rationing, sky-high prices and acute housing shortage, and you will appreciate that for a victorious (sic) nation our position is not pleasant...
Died. Juan Antonio Rios, 57, Chile's middle-of-the-road, opportunistic President (1942-46) who was elected with leftist support as a lesser evil than ex-Strong Man Ibáñez, under wartime stresses maintained a reasonable Right; of cancer; in Santiago (see LATIN AMERICA...