Word: meatlessness
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...have lots of beef for export. Then Juan Perón & Co. began tinkering with the national economy. A soak-the-farmers policy cut heavily into grain and cattle production. Last year, despite severely curtailed beef exports, Buenos Aires got its first taste of a meat shortage, with meatless days in restaurants and queues outside butcher shops. Since then, Perón has given cattlemen a somewhat better break, but beef is still in short supply...
...imports without making the beef-loving voters at home too unhappy. In the drive to bring down meat consumption, Health Minister Carrillo is trying to scare his countrymen into becoming vegetarians. At a busy corner in downtown Buenos Aires, he has put up a "Health Cooking" stand featuring free, meatless recipes, and a huge blackboard warning of disorders, from gallstones to high blood pressure, which he insists are caused by excessive meat-eating...
...this has been an oversight, an economy measure, or a deliberate plot by a vegetarian chef, it must be rectified. Harvard houses used to serve the best chop suey this aide of Yee Hung Gooey's magnificent restaurant on Oxford Street. But this reputation is sure to vanish if meatless chop suey becomes official policy...
Radcliffe girls will eat meatless spaghetti and garlic bread tonight instead of the traditional fish...
...average rate of 3% a month. Last week Peron finally changed course and-began to face the facts. In a somber speech to the nation he proclaimed a program of "inflexible austerity," of sacrifice, of less food and more work. For the famed Republic of Beef, the meatless day announced four weeks ago had seemed almost like a joke in poor taste. Now Peron decreed two meatless days each week, and to make the rule stick, he ordered butcher shops to shut down. Packing plants will also close one day a week, and on another day process meat for export...