Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baker received money from meat import-export transactions, and "wasn't this part of a device whereby the Murchison interests could reimburse you for past and future legislative favors granted...
Thomas Webb, a Washington representative for the Murchison family of Texas, told the committee that in 1961 Baker was responsible for finding a buyer for meat for the Murchison-bankrolled Haitian-American Meat & Provisions Co. (Hampco) of Port-au-Prince. For this, Webb said, Baker earned a ¼?-a-lb. "finder's fee." Later, when a Chicago firm, Packers Provision Co., bought Hampco's output, Baker began receiving a ⅛-a-lb. commission, though he had no part in getting Packers and Hampco together. Packers President William Kentor has said that Hampco "insisted" Baker be paid. Besides getting...
...whom hire themselves out to ranchers, and a good hunter can earn up to $70 a day. To these gunslingers, the "sport" is more than mere extermination. One U.S. clothing manufacturer placed an order for $140,000 worth of kangaroo skins to make ski clothes; the animal's meat is sold as a delicacy in Japan, can be found as pet food in Sydney shops at 23? a can. Some consider this a waste. "In kangaroos," says Basil J. Marlow, curator of mammals at the Australian museum in Sydney, "you have a valuable source of protein. Instead of being...
Hurlbut has asked the department dietician and meat buyer to investigate the feasibility of the proposal. "We're costing the situation out," he said yesterday, "We've held our board rate constant for four years, and we don't want an increase now," he added...
Help for Housewives. Since meat is the biggest single item in the U.S. food bill (about 25? out of every dollar), one beneficiary of the current situation is the U.S. housewife. Retail beef prices slipped 2% to an average 81? per Ib. last year, and the dip is expected to continue for a while. But Government experts also reckon that the cattlemen's troubles are only temporary. The beef business historically runs in cycles; when prices hold low, cattlemen sooner or later have to thin their herds, marginal operators drop out-and prices begin to recover. Besides...