Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain's tariff law enacted last March had imposed duties against foreign goods with the provision that these duties could be applied to the Dominions after next November. Mr. Bennett wanted a market for Canadian wheat, dairy products, poultry, lumber. Mr. Bruce wanted a market for Australian frozen meat. For this pair poky Mr. Baldwin was no match. Before they were through with him Britain had committed herself to five years of free entry for Dominion foodstuffs (except the Irish Free State's) at the expense of tariffs against the rest of the world's foodstuffs...
Argentina will lose through British preference to Australian meat. Russia may not like the dumping clause, but it was freely whispered at the conference that Russian objections had been silenced by a promise of a sizeable British loan...
There are earnest, unkempt minor officials in Russia who can find a solution for anything. Russia's harvested area is 25% less than in 1931 according to figures of Aug. 1. Russian meat is so scarce that U. S. experts have been called in. A long and hungry winter grows nearer. In the face of this Soviet officials have discovered that the rabbit, one of the mainstays of the French bourgeois cuisine, is sadly neglected in Russia. Only 1,500,000 domestic rabbits exist in the Soviet Union. Last week rabbit propaganda was put in motion. A rabbit breeding...
Though the cost of living has gone down 20%, the National Industrial Conference Board computes that the U. S. wage-earner's weekly pay envelope has shrunk 27.3% in real purchasing power. Despite this shrinkage the wage-earner has been able to buy more meat for his platter. Last week the Institute of American Meat Packers announced that total meat consumption was up for the first half of the third Depression year. Though less beef and veal went on the U. S. platter, pork consumption was up 152,000,000 lb., lamb up 13,000,000 lb. Last year...
...committee on meat is discussing pork...