Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this mean that the law of supply & demand would bring prices down? Livestock prices had already taken some pretty sharp turnbles. The best steers last week were bringing only about 25?-33¾? a Ib. on the hoof v. 29?-37½? a year ago. Retail prices were down, but relatively not 'as much. Spokesmen for two big chains last week predicted further drops. Said one: "There will be huge quantities of cattle coming to market within the next month or so, and we fully expect prices to go down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates...
Prompt Delivery. The drought parched the South from the brown grazing lands of Texas eastward through Dixie's corn, tobacco and (less seriously) cotton. It seared the Southeast's new livestock pasturage. It left scattered scars in the Midwest, and on wide areas of New England...
...hours later, at noon, the convention met once more, nominated Sparkman, labored wearily through one more demonstration. Said Stevenson: "You have inspected some of the finest political livestock in the U.S. [But] we've reserved until this morning the prize human animal for your approbation." Stevenson was keeping up his record of an aphorism a day. To New York Publisher Dorothy Schiff, at the height of the convention tiredness, he had said: "intellectual rigor mortis...
...more menacing than ever. The quarantine area that circled only a few Saskatchewan farms at the start (TIME, March 10) has spread out over some 7,000 sq. mi. The latest case was found less than 50 miles from the U.S. border, raising the greatest danger to the U.S. livestock industry since the last U.S. outbreak in 1929. Washington ordered extra inspection patrols into Montana and North Dakota to strengthen the guard against the virus...
With virtually no hope left for early lifting of the U.S. embargo on Canadian meat and livestock, Canada made a costly stop-gap agreement to trade her surplus beef and pork to Britain in exchange for New Zealand meat that she can resell to the U.S. (New Zealand cattle are free of the foot-and-mouth taint.) Canada stands to lose up to $10 million this year on the barter, but it is the only immediate way to clear up the glut of meat on the Canadian market. Domestic meat prices have already sagged, giving consumers a temporary break...