Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corn and wheat, but at even higher parity levels. Perishable crops-which account for 75% of U.S. farmers' annual cash income-would also be brought under a permanent price support, many of them for the first time. Here came Charlie's big trick. Prices of perishables (meat, vegetables, poultry, etc.) would be allowed to rise & fall in the market with supply & demand-and thus presumably give the consumer cheaper food. But the farmer would still get high prices because the Government would make up any differences. If, for example, the price of eggs were pegged...
...emphasis of U.S. agriculture were shifted from grain to livestock, and if Americans would increase their annual meat consumption (now about 145 lbs. per capita) by only 10 lbs. and drink 20 quarts more milk apiece a year, the experts believed the farm surpluses would fade away and the country would be a lot healthier. There was certainly a high demand for meat: cattle raisers get no subsidy and want none, and yet porterhouse was selling last week in Manhattan at a record $1.20 a lb. Cornell Farm Economist H. E. Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock...
...hills, shelter its slippery underworld. The Pépé le Moko of the favelas is a little man (5 ft. 2 in., 105 Ibs.) who says his real name is João da Costa Rezende but who is better known as Carne Séca, or Dried Meat...
...Dried Meat is popular and well-regarded among his kind. When flush, he gives away fish and beans to favela dwellers. He dances a graceful samba. Sentimental and gallant, he has the names of his two sisters tattooed on his chest, and the names of half a dozen other girls on his-arms. He can also be masterful with the dames. Once a certain Dolores talked too much when the police were listening. Dried Meat shaved her head; everybody in the favelas thought it served her right...
...police put Dried Meat down as a petty racketeer and gang boss. They suspected that he protected the bicheiros, who run an illegal numbers game (TIME, June 12). Then one day a rival racketeer, Baiano by name, was cut down by gunfire. The police blamed Dried Meat, chased him for two months through the favelas. Finally the fugitive gave himself up, blithely explained: "Running up & down the hills is for goats, not people...