Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DiSalle had little choice, now that he had slapped on retail price ceilings while livestock prices were uncontrolled. Last week he hinted to farm-bloc Congressmen that when & if he freezes livestock prices that are above parity, he will not roll back prices...
DiSalle, who predicted that all prices will rise an average of 6% by midsummer, knew that livestock prices will go higher. Consequently, retailers who try to observe ceilings will find their supplies vanishing. Most of all, DiSalle wanted to get his supply-control mechanism operating now in case he has to decree meat rationing this summer...
...look what we're eatin'." In the bowl were ham hocks and lima beans. Graves had just been paid $505,039.33, one of the biggest checks ever made out to an individual cattleman, for his herd of more than 2,000 catte sold at Denver's livestock market. It was Graves's last roundup and the biggest deal in his big-dealing career...
British farmers who want government funds to help them buy feed for livestock must fill out an application form. The form is self-explanatory-in a bureaucratic sort of way. "A grant, not exceeding 10% of the cost of rationed feeding stuffs," it assures the applicant, "may be paid under the [following] scheme...
MacMurray's homestead is equipped with props out of the Coney Island fun house: loose floorboard, collapsing bed, backfiring stove and a small gale that hits at the worst possible time. Heroine Dunne must also cope with livestock and servant problems, gossipy neighbors, a spoilsport (William Demarest) who controls the water supply, and the delicate affections of her husband's two daughters by another marriage...