Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beef, which must be butchered sacrificially, handled ceremoniously. Last fortnight 5,000 New York City kosher butchers-who for months have had the unpleasant job of asking Jewish housewives to pay $1.35 for cuts which last year cost $1 - shut up shop, noisily announced they would not reopen until meat prices were down...
Finally Rabbi Joseph Konvitz, head of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. & Canada, sternly urged the strikers to re-open "for spiritual as well as economic reasons." He feared that Jewish housewives would soon be tempted to buy nonkosher meat. After holding out a full week and having wrung promises of investigation from both city and Federal agencies, the butchers unlocked their shops-with steaks down from...
...same price was made clear yesterday by the powers behind the serving of the three-meal-a-day routine. Not made obvious to the undergraduate epicurean was whether the University would continue the present policy throughout the year in an attempt to defy rising prices of meat and similar commodities. At present the cost of the college's food bill has risen fifteen percent. Unless this upward turn ceases and backs down to the norm, the college may find it necessary to increase the rates and also lower the quality. The latter possibility is almost as intolerable as sand...
...most serious rise has been in the price of meat. The less expensive cuts are up ten percent over last year, while such items as sirloin steak are 35 percent higher. Although sirloin steak may possibly be rarer in the future, Westcott disclosed that the University would still serve ten tons of roast beef every month...
...dining cars and many a restaurant, beef several months ago made a silent but definite exit. From the tables of the poor, pork ("the poor man's food") has likewise long been absent. Reason for both these facts is, as every housewife knows, the current high price of meat. Last week choice steers were selling for $19.50 a cwt. in Chicago, highest price in 18 years, and angry housewives had to pay 47½?; a Ib. for sirloin which they could buy two years ago for 36? and which cost but 52? in the boom year...