Word: meat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beverly Hills butcher advertising himself as "the Tiffany of the Meat World," displayed expensive steaks on red, amber, silver and blue Cellophane cushions...
...Practically all of you are very sweet and I do enjoy serving you, but I am trying to bring high prices down by cutting my meat with as little waste as possible. Won't you cooperate? I must pay these high prices too, and I don't make as much money...
...explanations of Harry Truman's anti-inflation program. Ex-OPAdministrator Paul Porter, who had been re-enlisted by the White House fortnight ago, was the chief performer before the House Banking and Currency Committee. His main point: roll back prices to November 1947 levels on such items as meat, dairy products, clothing, steel...
...hold the cost of living down, -the government has subsidized milk, meat and wheat. Milk, for which the producers get 8? a quart, is sold to the public for 9?. Rents have been under strict control but are shortly due for some increase. Wages have also been held even; the government has set aside several wage increases proposed by labor-management boards...
Batlle has resumed the longtime practice of government intervention in industry. Telephones, banks, trains, insurance, fisheries and meat-packing plants are all government-owned enterprises in Uruguay. With accumulated sterling, the government plans to buy more Uruguayan railroads from the British. Businessmen already complain of a growing new bureaucracy, of obnoxious new controls, and the drain on Uruguay's resources...