Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading what Mrs. Holstein "cooked" for her 14 guests, I think a woman would have to go out to work to pay her food bill! If more women would try making pea soup with a ham bone instead of buying it in can, there wouldn't be so much griping about not being able to make ends meet. MRS. FRANTZ Levittown...
...livestock industry in an uproar. Cattle and sheep associations throughout the West accuse him of everything from anti-Americanism to stealing away the livelihood of the U.S. rancher. Jim Delfino, fed up with the marginal profits of the domestic livestock industry, has gambled $500,000 that he can make more money by importing cattle and sheep 7,900 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Australia and New Zealand to U.S. markets...
Delfino agreed. "The growers are right. In five years, I do not think that there will be a sheep industry in the U.S. With rising land values and labor costs, it is pretty tough for a rancher to raise a sheep and make much over $1.50 on it." Delfino, on the other hand, can buy Australian sheep for $5.50 or less each, net $3 per head minimum when he sells them...
...manure. Delfino, one of his partners, Clarence Peavy, and their employees pitched in and got the cattle off the boat. In all, Delfino lost about $30,000 on the first trip. "But it was well worth it," says he. "If I could go through all that trouble and still make out with the cattle in good shape, I knew it would be a profitable operation with good equipment and proper care...
...Woman! (CBS, 4-5 p.m.).* "You Can't Raise Children by the Book" attempts to make that point through a guided tour of the Yale Child Study Center...