Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT [370 pp.) -Harold Lamb-Doubleday...
...most effective controls on meat began to come last week from the housewives themselves. They were refusing to pay $1.30 a Ib. for loin of lamb, $1.10 and up for sirloin, as much as 70^ for hamburger. "The way people are buying," grumped Chicago Butcher Louis Blut, "I think they are living...
Britons sizzled last week over a 20% government cut in the tiny meat ration. The cut reduces the ration to eightpence (9?) worth a week-about one small lamb chop or a matchbox-sized piece of steak. This is an alltime low-less meat than sweat-&-tears Churchill gave them in the worst days...
There was another obstacle. Under the law, the prices of beef, lamb and veal, already well above parity, could be controlled now; but feed, selling below parity, cannot be controlled. If meat controls were slapped on, feed prices would still be free to rise. Actual meat production would be cut. The hard fact was that meat would stay high just as long as the U.S. housewife kept buying it at the present rate. The only real way to bring meat down was to eat less...
...wide intersection in front of the city hall was lighted up like a movie set by the flames that crackled through a front of shops. The place was completely deserted except for a small boy in a lamb's-wool cap, who stood weeping forlornly in front of the city hall steps. I walked over to him and asked him his name. He said his name was Hong Kiu He, that he was eight years old and that he had no father or mother. We put young master Hong in our jeep and drove down Mapo Boulevard...