Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tangled Web. Underpinning the welfare state are well-watered grasslands that, by the latest count, feed 22,954,230 sheep and 7,305,462 cattle-roughly ten animals for every man, woman and child in the country.* Wool, meat and hides, making up some 75% of Uruguay's exports, keep a country that is notably poor in mineral endowment near the top of Latin America's per-capita-income list. To subsidize the urban welfare state, the Montevideo-dominated national government takes a cut on every pound of wool, overtaxes the ranchers, forces them to sell beef cheap...
...land is beginning to tire. Since most ranch owners add no fertilizer to their soil and provide no feed for herds and flocks to supplement pasturage, the per-animal yield of meat or wool is less than it should be. Uruguay's basic economic need is a double agrarian reform: 1) an education program to teach ranchers how to conserve their soil and get a richer return from it, and 2) a shift of welfare-state burdens from the countryside to the cities. Instead, the politicos in Montevideo, hoping that forced-draft industrialization will eventually rescue the economy, have...
...getting behind again and haven't any meat on our bones. We're studying a price increase carefully and see it coming-it has to come." Thus Bethlehem Steel's Eugene G. Grace broke the news last week that the U.S. would probably have to swallow another general steel price rise. Noting that Bethlehem Steel's nine-month net earnings tumbled (from $122.6 million to $99.6 million) along with those of other companies, because of the steel strike, Chairman Grace said that spiraling costs for scrap, ore and transportation had more than gobbled...
...When the meat runs out two days later and the coward has run away with the only hunting gun, the petty fights begin. An engaged girl (Phillis Kirk) and Anita Ekberg, clad in scant blouses, tussle over the co-pilot in a nearby brook for the picture's most interesting scene...
Once upon a time, Chicken-lichen went into the woods to look for meat, and an acorn fell upon her poor head, so she cried: "The sky is falling down!" She told Hen-len who told Cock-lock, who told Duck-luck, who told Drake-lake, who told Goose-loose, who told Gander-lander, who told Turkey-lurkey. And on their way to tell the King, they met Fox-lox, who offered to take them to the Palace. Instead, he ate them all up. Moral: Use Your Head, Else a Fox May Pluck Your Feathers...