Word: lard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down 50% to 60% from last year, as a bumper crop was harvested. The glut was so great, and prices so low, that packers and growers slapped a temporary embargo .on shipments, trying to keep prices up in northern markets. Eggs were down generally 3? a dozen; meat and lard dropped an average...
...wake of meat decontrol, steak suddenly appeared on butchers' counters - at $1-&-up a pound. Lard and other meat by-products edged up toward 70? a pound. Dazed by the sight of so many rare items, the people went on a two-day buying spree-a mood reflected by a six-point jump in the Dow-Jones industrial index.* Then they hesitated...
...Resistance. The step from thought to action was short. In Decatur, Ill., a woman asked her grocer if he had any lard, learned that he had-at 65? a pound. "So," said she, "no wonder you still got it." In Kansas City, a secretary stalked indignantly from a shoe store, announcing that she would not pay $32.50 for a pair of shoes; in Los Angeles a butcher hung out a sign saying that he had refused to buy at the price the packers were asking. Chain stores with a stake in public relations refused to stock up on skyrocketing items...
...want of lard, National Biscuit Co., the nation's largest baker, closed its New York and Philadelphia plants. All other big bakers either cut production or planned to close. For want of hides and leather, shoe production next month would drop to about one-third of the first-quarter level, with many shutdowns of shoe factories in the offing. For want of animal extracts, insulin and streptomycin supplies dwindled toward a critical...
Even though some had wounds covered with molasses, lard, talcum powder, bluing, the surgeons did not debride, merely washed the burns with soap & water. Wearing surgical masks and using operating-room sterility procedure (to avoid infection), they wrapped the burned areas in gauze bandages, with or without a mild ointment (Dr. Elman: "None is really required"). They left on the original dressing as long as possible, usually ten to 14 days. After bandaging, patients able to stand were urged to get up and walk around. The only drug: anti-infection sulfathiazole pills...