Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meat-inspection standards for processors and distributors covered only by state law became more stringent. The statute requires states to raise their standards to at least the federal levels already applied to meat sent across state lines. Other consumer-oriented legislation extended the Flammable Fabrics Act to include all fabrics used in clothing and household furnishings and established a National Commission on Product Safety to study potentially hazardous merchandise...
Despite alltime-record output of wheat, rice, feed grains, soybeans, pea nuts, sugar cane, meat, poultry and eggs, America's 3,000,000 farmers will pock et 10% less income this year than in 1966. After six straight years of rising income amid inflation, the slump in prices gives the farmer less net purchasing power than he has enjoyed since mid-Depression 1934. While complaint has always been their bumper crop, U.S. farmers last week threatened to beat their plowshares into swords...
...Yugoslav Astronomer Tatomir Anzelić, in a revealing comment about contemporary Eastern European life, says: "So many people are taking drugs, it's no wonder they are prepared to believe that the Martians are coming." The Poles, who have had an abundance of UFOs but a shortage of meat, are whimsical; they are saying that it is really too bad that the flying platters are as empty as those on earth...
...shot at the movies in an Italian opus called Stop the World I Want To Get Off (no kin to the London-Broadway musical). By way of burnishing the image, Donyale told the Italian press that she keeps her figure (31-21-36) by eating only a kilo of meat per day-which comes to 2.2 Ibs., enough to sate a good-sized mastiff...
Hurlburt improved the methods of food procurement, sending meat inspectors to wholesale markets, for example, to stamp suitable purchases. In addition he arranged better use of employee time, maneuvering carefully at the fringes of union regulations...