Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were meat prices so high? Last week Joseph Marion Hartkopf, who runs a chainstore meat counter in suburban Woodlawn, Ala., gave his explanation. A married Army veteran with two children, Butcher Hartkopf wrote a letter to the Birmingham News...
...Ladies, I wish you would stop talking about the high prices of meat until you are ready to help bring them down. During the depression you were glad to get the cheaper cuts of meat, but now I can't even sell them...
...take any advice from your butcher . . . You are in a rut and won't try anything new so we are getting out of the habit of suggesting things. We sure are tired of hearing you complain about tough meats ... If you take the toughest piece of meat and rub it well with any citrus fruit, leave it in the refrigerator overnight, then slow-cook it, you will be delighted with its tenderness and flavor...
...bushy member of the bovine family which contributes transportation, housing (its hair is woven for tent cloth), milk, butter, meat, and a common word in crossword puzzles...
Trouble Compounded. For all that Manhattan Butcher Anthony D'Amelio angrily boarded up his shop and Boston Dealer Malcolm McCabe called meat packers "a bunch of robbers," there was no effective buyers' strike against the stratospheric prices. Along with higher wages, consumers had more liquid assets than ever to spend ($130 billion in Government bonds and bank accounts alone, according to the latest Federal Reserve Board survey), and were spending them. In place of an expected midsummer lull, retailers reported that the dollar volume of sales across the U.S. last week was up 6% to 10% over last...