Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worst of all, inflation continues unchecked. Beans (No. 1 staple of Brazilian diets) are up 27%, rice 108%, bread 55%, meat 43%. Chasing the prices, bus drivers and bank workers struck for-and won-40% pay increases. A national maritime strike is scheduled to begin this week; government employees, metal, paper, coffee and sugar-processing-plant workers call for 45% to 60% pay boosts...
...Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swineherd from western Spain, captured the Inca emperor by trickery, and had him strangled. Within a decade the bridges were tumbled, irrigation systems shattered, imperial warehouses emptied; the enormous llama herds that provided meat and clothing were scattered and slaughtered. The conquistadors cut the richer lands of the Andean foothills into immense haciendas worked by Indian peasants held virtually as slaves. Today, while Peru exports cotton, sugar, silver and copper, it must import food to maintain even a marginal existence for the bulk of its 10 million people. Half the population is illiterate; undernourished children...
...attempted to do is eliminate those things that people don't eat. You can't eat a 20% tip, a perfumed finger bowl or a waitress. It isn't the cost of food that has gone up, it's the service. We are in the meat and potatoes business -and meat and potatoes aren...
...quite so dismayed as tiny New Zealand. The prospect that joining the Common Market might force the British to raise their tariffs on Commonwealth agricultural products spelled major trouble for New Zealanders, who import virtually all their manufactured goods from Britain, pay for them with exports of wool, meat and butter. (About 35% of the butter Britons eat comes from New Zealand.) Last week New Zealanders heard more cheering economic news: Prime Minister Keith Holyoake announced that a major natural-gas field had been discovered in Kapuni on New Zealand's North Island...
Died. John Holmes, 70, longtime (1937-55) president of Swift & Co., an Irish immigrant who, on the strength of a rare combination of amiability and keen analytic intelligence, rose to become the first non-Swift to head the world's largest meat-packing firm; of a heart attack; in Tucson, Ariz...