Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, many feeders who could hold their cattle off the market no longer began to ship again; receipts in the nation's stockyards climbed back almost to normal. The big meat packers were beginning to slaughter again, though still less than 50% of the normal rate. The big packers still could not get top-grade beef at low enough prices; instead, they were buying grass-fed animals straight from the ranges. Even with the gradual return to normality, the trouble was far from over; feeders were still not buying animals for fattening and sale...
...Steelworkers. 5. Meat packers...
...enormous brute strength. He was accustomed to amuse his soldiers by crumbling stones in his hand, and he could break a horse's leg with his heel. He was 8 ½ feet tall, and his regular diet included nearly 8 gallons of wine and 40 Ibs. of meat...
...will be fish on Fridays for Roman Catholics of New Mexico beginning next September, decreed Santa Fe's Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne last week. The order will end a special privilege, long shared by Catholics of onetime Spanish colonies, of ignoring the regular rule of abstinence from meat...
WAGES & SALARIES The Wage Stabilization Board, which violated its own 10% limit on raises by approving bigger boosts for railroad and meat-packing workers (TIME, May 28), last week punched a gaping hole in the ceiling for 1,000,000 U.S. autoworkers. It okayed a 4?-an-hour boost, for "increased productivity," in most C.I.O.-U.A.W. autoworkers' contracts. Coupled with the 3?-an-hour cost-of-living raise last month, average auto wages were now up to $1.93 an hour, 12% above WSB's January 1950 base period. WSB also ruled that the productivity increase could...