Word: meats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
College students now pay $14 a week for board. The rate was raised from $12.25 last spring in the face of increased food prices. The continued rise in the cost of food, particularly meat, has forced the University to begin the limitation of servings, Heaman said...
Then, without warning, pain and sudden death clutched Pont-Saint-Esprit. On a Saturday night three weeks ago, the town's doctors began getting calls from people complaining of heartburn, stomach cramps and fever chills. At first, they thought it was a mild epidemic of meat poisoning. But the calls kept flooding in. By Monday, 70 houses in the village had become tiny hospitals, with most of their families in bed. Then the doctors found their first clue: every one of the patients had eaten bread from the shop of Baker Roch Briand. All eight of Pont-Saint-Esprit...
...three sections which did "the greatest damage to price controls," he said, were: the Capehart amendment, allowing manufacturers to add increased costs to their prices; the Herlong amendment, allowing retailers to charge the same percentage markups as before Korea, and the Butler-Hope amendment, banning slaughtering quotas in the meat business. Those amendments, said the President, may cost consumers "billions and billions of dollars...
Board Chairman Sam Friedland, now 54, and President George, 49, have been handling food since their boyhood, when they cut meat in their father's kosher butcher shop in Bayonne, N.J. In 1921, they scraped up $1,000, and opened their own meat store in Harrisburg, Pa. In eleven years, they built a string of 25 small food shops in Pennsylvania...
...they owned 22; sales soared to $13.5 million. Main secret of the Friedlands' success is quick service to move goods fast. All new Food Fairs have low counters so that the housewife can quickly spot whatever she wants and move on. The Friedlands were fast to adopt prepackaged meat; their new stores have a conveyor-belt system for groceries at the checkout counter, and teams of five to count and package the orders. The Friedlands are moving just as fast as the customers. In the next year, they plan to build 19 new stores...