Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slowly through the winter, while the meat supply was dwindling, the price to the consumer was creeping up. By February housewives everywhere began to complain (TIME, Feb. 25). Resentment boiled into a one-day consumers' strike in Los Angeles where 10,000 housewives boycotted their butchers, forced them to cut meat prices 5? a lb. For a time all was quiet. Last week a housewives' boycott broke out again, this time in New York City...
...horde of plain Eastside housewives, chanting "down with high meat prices!" invaded the distributing plants of Wilson & Co. and United Dressed Beef Co. In The Bronx 2,000 women volunteering as pickets succeeded in closing down more than 1,000 meat shops. In Brooklyn a poultry dealer named William Sheeger carried a chicken home for supper. Pickets, mistaking him for a customer who would not join the boycott, hurled a rock through his window, pummeled him. Confined at first to kosher shops, the strike spread to some nonkosher operators. Strike leaders claimed that more than 4,000 shops had been...
...Licht, secretary of City Action Committee Against the High Cost of Living. Money was raised through open air meetings at which members contributed dimes, nickels, pennies. A Labor society called the United Council of Working Class Women helped out. Demanding a flat reduction of 10? per lb. in all meat prices, Housewife Licht & associates pointed to the following comparison of last week's meat prices in New York City with the same week last year...
...cows and a 1,200-lb. Guernsey bull named Klondike Iceberg-first bull ever born in Little America; 15 emperor penguins, of which one was decidedly indisposed; the knowledge that seal meat looks like liver, but tastes different; indisputable proof that the common cold and other germs flourish in Antarctica; samples of unidentified bugs which live in snow and melted ice pools; the memory of four months alone in an ice hut, "lonely as hell," studying weather conditions, reading 85 books and letting his hair grow to shoulder-length...
...captain in the National Guard modeled on the Marines. By 1930 he was Chief of the Army and ready to take over the Presidency in the first of his dummy elections. He clamped on the lazy, illiterate, Spanish-speaking near-whites his own personal monopolies in salt, shoes, milk, meat and tobacco, paid almost nobody honest wages except the over-sized army of 2,500. He toadied to Washington and, in short, applied the usual formula of Caribbean tyranny. He has an armor-plated Packard car with facsimile field guns for fender lamps, a toothsome white mistress* and their bastard...