Word: meatmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though meat controls were the cattlemen's main target, the Administration feared that the meatmen were linked up with the potent cotton bloc to blast the entire price control program, now up for renewal by Congress. One cattleman admitted that "our aim is to kill all price controls...
Protests, requests and questions poured into Washington. Labor unions and many consumers complained that prices were pegged too high and left too flexible, while wages were locked tight. Farmers and meatmen protested that meat controls made black markets a certainty. The price order disrupted commodity exchanges for a day, but it sent stocks merrily upward...