Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of citrus and other fresh fruits (the average consumer gets fewer than five oranges a year). With the exception of bread, meal, some baked products and margarine, most foods are rationed. In Saxony, for example, each person's theoretical weekly allowance is one-half pound of meat, two eggs, one-half pound of hard sausage, and about six ounces of butter. The favorite strategy for buying up unrationed goods in short supply is to dispatch every member of the family to stand in line at different shops. Prices are about four or five times as high...
...beat down the duty they have to pay by a host of wily methods. They lie on their declarations, and use forged documents, doctored contracts, paper shuffling and tricky bookkeeping to fool the customs men. Their schemes often involve bringing in cheaper merchandise from behind the Iron Curtain: canned meat from Poland and Yugo slavia, steel, machinery and porcelain from East Germany, heating pipe from Hungary and even camel hair that probably originates somewhere in Asiatic Russia...
...much earlier, and would probably have prevented many of his more blatant abuses. If the allegations of his accusers are true, the former Secretary to the Senate Democatic Majority owned, manipulated, or assisted simultaneously two vending-machine corporations, a Milwaukee insurance company, a luxury hotel in Maryland, a Haitian meat-packing firm, and an exclusive Washington club. Yet the far-flung nature of Mr. Baker's interests was not brought to light until the owner of one of the vending machine firms sued him for, apparently, backing out on a promise to persuade a government contrator to purchase certain vending...
...years ago microwave ovens seemed just the thing for everyone's dream kitchen: roast beef cooked in 30 minutes, apple pie in 18, meat loaf in 13. But the ovens flopped: they were priced too high (well over $1,000), cost too much to repair, sometimes turned meat a bilious grey. Despite this, expensive microwave ovens are now back in force-this time not intended for everybody's kitchen. Vastly improved small models are cooking up a storm in the nation's restaurants...
...orthodox dietary prohibitions, flights are scheduled so that Jewish passengers will not be stranded at mealtime in such nonkosher cities as Teheran and Athens. And at a cargo weight loss of 600 Ibs. each trip, El Al's jets carry extra pots and double sets of plates for meat and dairy dishes. Extreme Orthodox Jews, like those of the Hasidim sect, still refuse to eat El Al's meals. They are served box lunches from a special kitchen that meets their exacting standards...