Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along with nine this year. But they can make up on tomatoes, which are more plentiful than usual. Milk will be scarcer and citizens will have to get along with 16 lb. of butter on their yearly bread instead of the 18 lb. to which they are accustomed. Meat will prove the major food problem, not everywhere at once but in spots gradually. At first there will appear to be an abundance of beef steaks, veal cutlets, legs of lamb and mutton chops as farmers without forage dispose of their stock. But by 1935 herds will be down to such...
...fear not shortage but glut. This group? the tanners?have the misfortune to use as their principal raw material a commodity in which demand has no bearing whatsoever on supply. Hide production depends not on the use of shoe leather but on beef consumption. Cattle are slaughtered for meat and the hide is merely a byproduct...
Corn into Meat. Most U. S. corn is fed to hogs, steers, chickens. Thus when corn soars so does pork, lard, eggs, beef. Fat corn-fed steers have risen in the past fortnight from a $8.50 per cwt. to $9.50. Top price for hogs last week was $5.60, best level in three years. Meanwhile, however, the stock yards have been overrun with gaunt, stumbling beasts which stricken farmers can no longer feed, and this is why the price of ordinary meat-on-the-hoof has gained little. Government purchases of relief cattle may run as high...
...food requirements prepared by the Department of Agriculture. In the course of a year this diet would, among other things, provide every citizen with 100 lb. of flour and cereals, 155 lb. of potatoes, 310 qt. of milk, 135 lb. of leafy and other green vegetables, 165 lb. of meat and fish, an egg for breakfast every day. Researcher Doane discovered that with 1929's good crops every citizen could have been provided with all the grain, potatoes, beans, peas, nuts, fats, bacon and lard called for by the diet?and the U. S. would still have had a surplus...
...Doane's coworkers on the survey promptly pointed out that even in 1929 46,000,000 U. S. citizens had incomes of less than $426. hence could not be expected to buy two suits of clothes a year, an egg for breakfast, half a pound of meat and a pint and a half of milk every...