Word: lard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likes to thump-did not need much study to know what the program meant. When the Chicago market opened next day, May wheat promptly jumped the permissible daily limit of 10? a bushel, with other futures not far behind. The rise in wheat pulled up corn, oats, soybeans and lard. By week's end, profit-taking by traders had reduced some of the gains. But Anderson held out hope for another rise. The Government, he hinted cheerily, might resume wheat-buying fairly soon...
Angry Twitch. Harold Stassen had come to the hearing primed with fresh charges. While Pauley glowered at him across the witness table, Stassen declared that Pauley had not liquidated his holdings after he became an Army assistant last September. Instead, Pauley had bought large amounts of lard and cottonseed oil, taken a $56,360 profit after the Government announced large purchases for shipment abroad. Previous deals in wheat, oats and hides followed the same "pattern...
...Secretary Kenneth Royall had agreed that he would have nothing to do with the Army's procurement. He had also sold out 90% of his holdings-300,000 bushels of oats, 200,000 bushels of corn, 300,000 pounds of cottonseed oil, 500,000 pounds of lard, more than 1,700,000 pounds of hides. On paper, selling out had cost him about $100,000 in profits. Still, he had to admit that he had "done pretty well . . . over all, I made a profit...
...pitch by printing at least one new fact about the wedding every day. There was news of gifts, each one more fantastic than the last: a grand piano from the R.A.F.; a doily from Mohandas Gandhi, made of yarn spun by the old saint himself; 1,500 cans of lard from the residents of Eritrea; jeweled anklets and a statue of Siva from the Dominion of India; an ivory casket from Pakistan; a traveling bag made of elephants' ears from the women of Kenya; a spirited yearling from the stables of the Aga Khan; a necklace of diamonds & rubies...
Despite good times and a boom in sugar, Cubans were griping last week. From scrubby street gamins in Havana's Barrio de Colén to the panama-hatted businessmen in the Manzana de Gémez, they panned Grau for the high price of lard, the scarcity of beef, the roaring black market. There were demands in the press for his resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then...