Word: lambe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans are eating more meat than ever before, and the $14 billion meat-packing industry is patting its tummy with satisfaction. This year Americans will consume more than 32 billion Ibs. of beef, pork, veal and lamb, or 170 Ibs. per person. The meat packers are ready for the rush. The past few years have been lean ones for the industry, which suffered from inefficiency, slowness to change, and overcapacity created by allegiance to outdated methods of processing and marketing. But the meat packers have learned to adjust to a new era of supermarketing and new methods of livestock-raising...
...increase its gross margin, the meat packers' measure of profit. At the same time it has geared its buying and processing to what Americans like rather than to what is merely available. The amount of pork eaten by Americans has remained remarkably steady for 40 years, but lamb is declining everywhere except in New England, New York and Los Angeles. The real advance is in beef eating, which has risen 77% since 1940. "After all," explains Armour Chairman William Wood Prince, 50, "when a fellow takes a girl out and wants to impress her, he buys her beefsteak...
...says at last, and the word sets in train the strange and affecting tale of this strange and brilliant Italian film, the hilarious and horrifying parable of a Judas goat who innocently leads a lamb to the slaughter...
During a busy Christmas week, in which he received an enthusiastic welcome (including the gift of a white lamb) from one of Rome's working-class areas, Pope Paul described his pilgrimage as "a journey of prayer, made with humility and with love." In fact, the trip will be a protocol-hedged ordeal for the Pope, who will have to pray while under the eyes and cameras of more than 1,000 newsmen, 8,000 policemen and 500,000 Jordanians and Israelis. The trip was planned to avoid adding to Near Eastern tensions, but some bitterness inevitably was aroused...
...plan to supply meat substitutes for such dishes as yeal, lamb, stew and ham is based on a policy already in effect in Quincy House, where it has proven economically feasible because that dining hall serves uniform portions of all items...