Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other housewives were noticing at the check-out counter. The Labor Department reported that the consumer price index in June scored the biggest in crease in the past two years, rising by one-half of 1%, to 110.1% of the 1957-59 average. Main ingredients in this rise were meat, which climbed 6.1% between April and June, and vegetables...
What Goes Up ... The steaks, roasts and other beef cuts that now constitute 50% of the average American's meat menu cost 11% more last month than they did a year ago. Pork is 16.5% higher; in many places, pork loin has risen from 590 a lb., to 790, and bacon costs as much as $1 a lb. As shoppers substituted chicken for beef and pork, poultry prices inevitably rose by 7% (current U.S. average price for fryers...
...curb his appetite; no longer did he wolf down 15 chickens at a sitting. But doctors said he needed stricter discipline. When he waddled into the Medical College of Georgia's Clinical Investigation Unit in Augusta to volunteer for obesity research, he tipped the hospital's meat scale...
...authorities. A month ago, a 16-year-old boy was tumbled out of his tube by a particularly boisterous cataract, and sometime later was found dead about ten miles downstream. Said a sheriff's deputy: "The body was horribly mutilated-as if it had been run through a meat grinder...
...obese woman, meat shakin on the bone...