Word: larded
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...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...
...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...