Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuaded Mobilizer Wilson to issue a new order to his Defense Production Administration-it authorized DPA to use its priorities and allocations to force manufacturers to produce adequate quantities of inexpensive apparel and durable goods. To prevent a repetition of World War II's black market in meat, DiSalle's experts began drafting a plan for licensing meat slaughterers. It would confine meat processing to legitimate business firms, block a sudden sprouting of new firms aiming for black-market sales...
Parliament reconvened in somber mood last week after a five-week recess. A dark, lowering sky turned afternoon into night, and a damp mist crept into the House of Commons. M.P.s had plenty to worry about-a coal shortage, a meat shortage, the shock of rearmament on Britain's bareboned economy. But one urgent question overshadowed the others...
Britons sizzled last week over a 20% government cut in the tiny meat ration. The cut reduces the ration to eightpence (9?) worth a week-about one small lamb chop or a matchbox-sized piece of steak. This is an alltime low-less meat than sweat-&-tears Churchill gave them in the worst days...
Despite rising exports, Britain got into this meat hole because of a gimmick beloved of its doctrinaire Socialists, bulk buying. The fact that the government does all Britain's buying of essential foods and many other commodities is supposed to enhance its bargaining power, make imports cheaper for Britain's people. But after Britain became a bulk buyer, Argentina, which supplies 20% of Britain's meat imports, became in self-defense a bulk seller...
...Ministry of Food, dickering for a year's Argentine meat supply, refused nine months ago to pay a ?5,000,000-a-year increase asked by Argentina. The Labor government called it "blackmail." The Argentines stopped shipping, and meat is piling up in Argentina...