Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ranchers and feed-lot operators are now holding back the cattle until they put on more weight. But unless feed prices come down later this year, the expense of keeping cattle will be high, and steers may well be sold before they are fully fattened, thus reducing the meat supply and driving prices up even higher...
...performance is obviously based on a close reading of the sources. The habits are ticked off one by one, amid the slow disintegration of personality: the stiff, corseted movements, the crescendos of temper, the harsh, mesmeric voice grinding out its long postprandial diatribes against traitors, smokers and meat eaters. The words rebound from the elephant-colored walls of the bunker as once they had echoed down the parade grounds of the Third Reich. Hitler's pallid hand, shaking from Dr. Morell's amphetamine capsules, spoons dollops of Schlag onto a slab of chocolate cake. The movie...
...mixture of good and bad, but the bad predominated. The Wholesale Price Index for April jumped 1%, well below the record 2.3% rise of March but still a huge increase for a single month. Food prices declined slightly for the first time in months, led by a drop in meat that partly reflected the recent nationwide meat boycott. But prices for a broad range of industrial commodities leaped 1.4%, the largest one-month rise since 1951 and an ominous indication that inflation is spreading from farm to factory. Another portent of gathering inflation: major New York banks last week lifted...
...them eat cheese, suggested Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz when complaints about meat prices reached him. Now he has a new suggestion: eggs. Decked out in a chefs toque emblazoned P.F. (for Plentiful Foods) he confidently launched a Butz omelet before admiring department employees. "Anyone can do this," he announced as he shuffled his skillet like a galloping gourmet. He was so right. The omelet was lumpy and overcooked. Next try was better, and for his efforts the show-off chef was granted membership in the National Good Egg Club...
...Political corruption is not new, yet so many people who are neither members of the liberal left nor conservative Republicans are all stirred up," Riesman observed. "How many of these people are really upset by high meat prices, but are striking out now because there is a higher morality, a legitimacy, to attacking Watergate...