Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...folded its wings. Legs rigid, it plummeted downward, driving its talons deep into the hare's skull, killing the animal instantly. Then, poised over its prey, 3-ft. wings spread in triumph, it shrieked impatiently for its master to hurry along with its reward: a tidbit of fresh meat...
...surface, Nigeria seemed tranquil enough. A dozen ocean-going freighters thrashed seaward from Lagos' Apapa Quay, laden with cocoa, groundnuts, rubber and timber. In the Eastern Region's capital of Enugu, helmeted coal miners queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes...
...treetop level all the way from Budapest. A pair of Rumanians recently hid for three days under a truckload of tomatoes bound for Austria. Another rode into Vienna in a refrigerated railway car, where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train across the Austrian border at 50 m.p.h. But of all the tight spots escapees get themselves into, no one could match the Rumanian contortionist who folded her self up like a lawn chair and slipped across the border under an auto seat...
Seeking a Scapegoat. No investigation is needed to establish the major point: for the first time since the inflationary Korean War period, food prices are climbing faster than overall retail prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food has gone up by 3½% in the past year; meat, fish and poultry 7½%, dairy products 5½%. Local situations dramatize the difficulty. In Chicago last week the retail price of butter was 93? per lb., up 12½? from last year. In Detroit, lettuce has gone from 20? a head to 29?, cabbage from...
...giveaways to friendly but needy foreign countries, the U.S.'s once-mountainous grain surplus has dwindled to a point below what is needed as a strategic reserve; as one result, domestic wheat prices are up 20% since May. Livestock prices stand at a 14-year high. Because meat is so profitable, many dairymen have decided to slaughter their cows instead of milk them; the 14.6 million dairy cows in the U.S. today represent the fewest since 1900. That in itself has created a new shortage-which at least partly explains the increase in milk prices...