Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British trade delegation in Buenos Aires this week signed a contract for 200,-00 tons of Argentine meat. For ten months meat shipments had been suspended because Socialist bulk-buyers refused to pay Argentina's price. Minister of Food Maurice Webb said in January that Britain could not pay more than ?120 ($336) per long ton. Last week's agreed price was ?146 ($408) for chilled beef, ?126 ($352) for frozen. In return, the British got a few concessions, including permission for British investors in Argentina to transfer funds home. However, the essence of the new contract...
Britain's butchers carve the tiny weekly meat ration with surgeonlike skill; a slip of a fraction of an inch, and the legal eightpennyworth is exceeded. The Ministry of Food sometimes tests these craftsmen, and last week its testing methods came under fire...
...British methods. Wrote one woman to the Daily Express: "I would like to punch Mrs. Caple on the nose." But Housewife Mary Browne backed the Ministry: "Yes, snooping may be nasty, but how else can the butchers be caught? I've seen professional actresses getting as much meat for themselves as I get for the whole family...
...that mean that the government had learned its lesson and would give up its bulk buying of meat, fruit and other foodstuffs whose quality and quantity have also dropped because of the purchasing system? Certainly not, said the Ministry. Nor will the tea change necessarily give Britons a better brew. One reason: other markets have forged ahead of London, and now get first pick of the best teas. Nevertheless, as Mincing Lane's brokers began to blend and taste their first purchases, they smacked their lips with satisfaction. Said one: "This tastes better already! What a change from Socialist...
Then, still whole, but looking a little as if he had escaped from an enormous meat grinder, Auriol was sped north to Canada. New York, a city which gulps up princes and Presidents like gumdrops and remembers almost nobody, was rumbling away as if nothing had happened...