Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceiling on meat may keep the overall food-price index from rising as much as it otherwise would have for the next few months, but many politicians and labor leaders argue that more extensive controls will be necessary. Texas Democrat Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee, has offered a bill that would place a freeze on all retail prices and interest rates and roll back some rents as well. Even Republicans feel that further action should be taken on the Hill. Says Representative Garry Brown of Michigan: "I worry whether people will be content with just a ceiling...
...Meat Lust. More ominously, George Meany said after the ceiling was announced that unless there is a general rollback on prices, labor will consider Phase III "inequitable." That was a blunt warning that unions, angered by price rises, may well be encouraged to make excessive demands in the contract negotiations that get under way in the next few months in the rubber, trucking, electrical and auto industries. If labor wins big wage boosts, Nixon will be confronted again with the specter of inflation. He would have to make an unhappy choice: either he would have to impose a wage freeze...
Meanwhile, the consumer revolt goes on, unchecked by the ceiling on meat prices. Groups throughout the U.S. continue to protest. FIT (Fight Inflation Together), a nationwide organization of housewives, plans to push forward with its meat boycott this week. Among local anti-meat campaigns launched recently are STOP (Stop These Outrageous Prices) in northern New Jersey, WASP (Women Against Soaring Prices) in Delaware, SCRIMP (Save Cash, Reduce Immediately Meat Prices) in Boston and LAMP (Ladies Against Meat Prices) in several states. UPD (Until Prices Drop) is collecting grocery receipts to mail to the President. Governor Reagan of California, the nation...
...Meat may soon be rivaling sex as a source of jokes. Samples: "Where can I rent a steak?" Or: "I would like to invest in a piece of meat." Vice President Agnew offered his contribution last week: "Two Swiss steaks opened a bank account in Zurich." Housewives have taken to following meatless recipes. If their husbands remain meat chauvinists and insist on steak, they are served smaller portions-and sometimes they get something else when they think that they are eating beef. A housewife in Portland, Ore., revealed in a newspaper interview that she had been feeding her husband horsemeat...
...Meat lust has made the West wild again. Rustlers prowl the prairies in pickup trucks, absconding with unbranded cattle, which they then sell for $100 to $500 a head. Sometimes they kill and dress steers on the spot; at least three of the animals have been slain by bow and arrow. Says California Rancher Gordon Garland: "Cattle theft in the foothills has increased so much in recent months that ranchers are now forced to carry guns to protect their own physical well-being." Another leathery son of the soil advises: "When you catch some slob stealing, shoot...