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...even moderately well-informed vegetarians know, the price of beef is currently sky-high (TIME, Oct. 4). Higher still-by about 1? per Ib.-is kosher beef, which must be butchered sacrificially, handled ceremoniously. Last fortnight 5,000 New York City kosher butchers-who for months have had the unpleasant job of asking Jewish housewives to pay $1.35 for cuts which last year cost $1 - shut up shop, noisily announced they would not reopen until meat prices were down...
...well as economic reasons." He feared that Jewish housewives would soon be tempted to buy nonkosher meat. After holding out a full week and having wrung promises of investigation from both city and Federal agencies, the butchers unlocked their shops-with steaks down from 2? to 5? per Ib...
...parallel to the inflation that has skyrocketed the value of John Steinbeck first editions, bibliophiles must turn to the classic rise in the price of calves' liver, once given away in most butcher shops, currently selling at 85? a Ib. Distributed free to Publisher Covici-Friede's friends last Christmas, Author Steinbeck's St. Katy the Virgin, a short story, is now quoted at $10. Published last fortnight in an edition limited to 699 autographed, de luxe copies, Novelist Steinbeck's latest work, The Red Pony, was quoted at $10 a copy, and no man knew...
...food") has likewise long been absent. Reason for both these facts is, as every housewife knows, the current high price of meat. Last week choice steers were selling for $19.50 a cwt. in Chicago, highest price in 18 years, and angry housewives had to pay 47½?; a Ib. for sirloin which they could buy two years ago for 36? and which cost but 52? in the boom year...
Newark in traffic volume leads not only the U. S. but the world. This year close to 300,000 passengers, over 4,000,000 Ib. of mail and over 2,500,000 Ib. of express will be handled. One hundred and twenty planes a day roar off Newark's runways compared with less than 100 out of Berlin, London or Paris. But Newark is 14 miles and 40 minutes from the centre of Manhattan, suffers the resentful opposition of every loyal flying New Yorker...