Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked Chancellor Butler: "How are we to get out of this?" His remedy sounded much like those of his Socialist predecessors, Cripps and Gaitskell: more austerity. Imports will be slashed $1 billion, partly by reducing purchases of canned meats, sugar products and fruits in Europe, paring another 2? off the tiny meat ration (total: two small chops weekly), buying less butter, bacon and cheese. The dreary British menu will be thinner and less nourishing than it was after Dunkirk. British tourists will find it more difficult to take steak-hunting vacations on the Continent: their annual foreign travel allowance will...
Inflation is fast robbing the people of their pretty green, blue and purple paper money; a kilo of black meat now costs an average day's wages-twice the price of a month ago. Chelow-kabab, the famed national dish of rice and meat, which cost 15 rials 60 days ago, is now 30. Poor Iranians grumbled: "Chelow-kabab is a royal dish now. Too rich to swallow." Bricklayer Hassan Rezaie expressed a growing bewilderment: "They tell me that oil has been nationalized. But the good life has not yet come." It was a dangerous game the British...
...below last year, because there are not enough cheap animals to balance the high-priced steers. Result: the big packers are operating at such a low level that they have been losing money on beef for the first time in years. In effect, the packers obeying OPS are underwriting meat controls while black marketeers are making big profits...
...rolled up to Chicago's stockyards last week, disgorging huge numbers of hogs and cattle. As the squealing, lowing animals were crowded into the cold and muddy pens, prices tumbled. Sales of steers were heavier than in any comparable week in ten years. Had the big break in meat prices finally come...
Black Markets. But beef was another matter. Beef prices are still at their retail ceilings; supplies of many good cuts are short and, in some places, prime beef is simply unavailable. Despite the huge shipments of beef to market, big meat packers cannot buy their normal quotas of animals under OPS controls...