Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purchased outright from Robosonics Inc., the largest-selling private manufacturer, and R.S.V.P., its West Coast rival, for about $400 and up, depending on the number of frills. Robosonics' latest is a $700 version which will take up to six hours of messages, aimed at firms like meat wholesalers, who can thus collect overnight orders. R.S.V.P. is bringing out a model which allows the owner to call in and change his own recorded message. Tentative price...
...rises spread across both consumer and industrial areas of the economy. The consumer price index last week inched upward to a record 110.2% of the 1957-59 average (up a modest 1.9% from a year earlier), largely because of the higher costs of auto insurance, home ownership and meat. Without the recent federal excise tax cuts-75% to 80% of which have been passed on to the consumer-the index would have pushed even higher. Wholesale prices rose to a new record in July, gaining 2.5% over a year ago. Raw-material prices have risen 10% in the past year...
...deserted dude ranch. Talked Things Over in a deserted bus, and dashed across some deserted sand dunes, only to be run to earth by the evil adman in a deserted summer resort. It all lurches to a halt with Model Ferris on her way back to plugging meat and the Five on their way to Nowheresville...
...assist to the U.S. balance of payments (see U.S. BUSINESS), U.S. farmers last year exported to Western Europe $1.4 billion worth of everything from soybeans to turkeys, and so far this year have matched that record pace. Helped along by European shortages of beef and pork, exports of U.S. meat have gone from $51 million to $74 million in a year. Tobacco and cotton have swung upward from $236 million to $295 million. The greatest increase was in animal feeds (from $521 million to $672 million), which ironically can only serve to reduce U.S. meat sales. Even now, U.S. feed...
Ironically, meat prices are high primarily because steer and hog prices last year hit a seven-year low. Farmers responded to that slump by cutting their herds and reducing their feed bills, with the result that fewer and leaner cattle are now coming to market. At the same time, the vegetable supply has been shortened by acts of nature: drought in the Maine and Long Island potato country, heavy rains in the carrot, onion and lettuce fields of the Southwest. Beyond this, the Government's recently imposed restrictions on Mexican braceros and other imported farm labor have reduced...