Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disparity still exists. Food costs are high. One Western calculation places the price of a food basket filled with 28 standard items at $56 in Moscow compared with $33 in New York, $48 in Munich, and $38 in London. In addition to prohibitively high prices, periodic shortages of meat, vegetables and fruits still persist throughout much of the Soviet Union. Because of planning snags and distribution muddles, the situation is much the same in clothing, shoes, household appliances and furnishings...
There are two things a man should never be forced to see: how the meat packers make sausage and how Texas politicians make their daily bread...
...that at least $166 million is needed to deploy a minimum of 1,550 inspectors instead of the current 500. The Labor Department, working on a "worst-first" basis, is concentrating its inspectors on the policing of industries that have extremely high accident rates: longshoring, roofing and sheet metal, meat packing, mobile-home manufacturing and lumber and wood producing. Indeed, accidents are so common on the docks that, on the average, one out of every eight longshoremen a year suffers at least a temporarily disabling injury...
...Seal Meat. In a fascinating spot survey, Miss de Beauvoir reviews how the old have fared in other places, other times. For example, among the Chukchee, a Siberian fishing tribe, an elder who outlived his time was given a farewell feast of seal meat and whisky, after which his son or younger brother slipped behind and strangled him with a seal bone...
...common warm-weather hazard. Except in rare cases of serious shock, treatment is often omitted. But a cheap and effective antidote is readily available in the kitchen, according to a letter in the A.M.A. Journal by Dr. Harry Arnold Jr., a Honolulu dermatologist. His prescription: a quarter-teaspoon of meat tenderizer dissolved in a teaspoon or two of water and rubbed into the skin around the bite. Meat tenderizer, Arnold explains, is rich in papain, a protein-dissolving enzyme, which breaks down the venom. Arnold says that a dose of meat tenderizer will stop the pain of most insect stings...