Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership has done fairly well?but not well enough. Soviet agriculture, which employs about 26% of the work force v. less than 2% in the U.S., has picked up considerably and the Soviets have not had to buy wheat abroad for two years; but there are still shortages of meat, fruit and fresh vegetables. Industry is lagging badly. Technological advance is falling even farther behind the West. The consumer remains ill cared...
...Cosmonaut must first wait outside the store to see whether meat is being delivered that day. Once inside, she must wait on one line to find out how much the meat will cost, another to pay for the meat and a third to pick it up. Nor can Mrs. Cosmonaut complete her shopping at one or two places, since food shops are specialized. Pravda recently complained that "a consumer would not be surprised if he saw shops selling only noodles or bay leaves...
Cambridge does not have a food stamp program. Instead, there is surplus food doled out in cans and bags at local distribution spots. This "food"-which the government has no use for and generously throws to the poor-consists of delicacies such as powdered milk, lard, flour, canned hamburger meat, spam, and powdered potatoes. Much of it is inedible at best...
...least for a time. U.S. farmers have increasingly turned to feeding wheat and soy or cotton seed to their cattle and hogs. Eventually, though, a scarcity of feed corn would raise its price, and the prices of other feeds would rise with it, thus increasing the cost of meat. So the ancient biblical plague would be transmogrified: rural catastrophe, like so much of the nation's farm population, would merely migrate to the cities...
...intended to denigrate my colleagues. Furthermore, peculiar as it may seem, I mean no offense to the Academy. I simply do not wish to be involved." It was a polite request. Elsewhere, however, Scott was a little more explicit. "The whole thing is a goddam meat parade," he said. "I don't want any part...