Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laughing crowds in London's Piccadilly Circus, restored to its prewar dazzle only 18 months ago, gave a full-throated rendition of Auld Lang Syne. The New Year did not stay welcome for long. Last week, with housewives grousing over the latest cut in the meat ration (eight ounces to four ounces weekly), Piccadilly's neon lights were doused by a coal shortage...
...annual convention of the American National Cattlemen's Association, meeting in San Francisco last week, came out flatly against both price controls and subsidies for meat. Reason: they diminish production and kill initiative. Said Executive Secretary Fernand E. Mollin: "[They] would do what they did in the last war, drive meat out of the market and leave nothing but pigs' knuckles...
Cattlemen thought that, both for themselves and for consumers, the meat outlook was good. With favorable feed prices, cattlemen increased their herds by 2,000,000 last year and expect to match the increase this year. Thus, a rise in the present cattle population of 82 million would put it close to 1945's alltime high of 85.5 million. The spring pig crop of 63.5 million, a gain of 3,500,000 over 1950, is expected to be the second best on record, though well below 1943's peak of 74 million. At a meeting last week with...
That would take some doing; U.S. meat consumption, at 145 Ibs. a year per person, was close to its 1947 peak. Last week hogs hit their highest price ($21.75 a hundredweight) in five months. Lambs set a new alltime record of $34. Prime steers rose to $40. The Department of Agriculture* predicted that meat prices would go a lot higher in the next two months. The prediction was certain to boost buying for home-freeze lockers, thus help make it come true...
...Bitter Rice" is a strange combination of modern realism and old-fashioned melodrama. When the jewel thief is shot by his former mill, he doesn't just die--he dies with his wrist caught on a meat hook. Some parts of the film have been out for the benefit of Boston audience's delicate tummies. The most notable and unforgivable of the outs is an episode showing the collapse of a pregnant woman during a rainstorm in the paddies...