Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...climbing. In the past month the price of Kansas City wheat jumped from $2.20 to $4.05 per bu. Corn sold in Chicago rose 42? per bu., to $3.17. "The whole psychology for increased farm prices is already here," insists Charles Kershaw, a prominent Southern California cattle feeder who expects meat prices to rise later as feed grains for cattle and hogs become more expensive. Butz reacted to the complaints by asking all U.S. grain dealers to enter into no more contracts with the Soviet traders until the U.S. corn and wheat crops could be more precisely forecast. The greatest uncertainty...
...islands on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Only the hardiest souls venture on the island expeditions organized by Paul Risk, a prominent outdoorsman whose wilderness-survival courses at Michigan State University draw capacity enrollment. Risk trippers are allowed to take only a blanket, sleeping gear, two candy and two meat bars. One survivor recalls that last year an eleven-member expedition to Garden Island for two weeks subsisted on 36 fish, 29 rabbits and three ducks, plus wild herbs, wintergreen and Euell Gibbons staples...
...lowest heart-disease rates; coronaries yearly claim only 92 out of every 100,000 of the country's males. Most medical researchers have long been convinced that the difference is dietary: the traditional fish-and-rice diet of the Japanese is much lower in fat content than the meat, dairy and fried-food menu favored by Americans. But a new study by researchers from the University of California at Berkeley seems to show that the difference is largely cultural, not culinary. The findings indict stress, American-style, as a major cause of coronaries...
...Economic Committee that the June rise does not foreshadow "a new burst of inflation," but conceded that it does mean the U.S. will have to settle for a "base rate of inflation" higher than 3% to 4%. One reason that price boosts may not continue at the June pace: meat prices have leveled off in recent weeks as larger supplies of beef have begun moving to market...
...previous estimate of the Soviet grain crop by 10 million tons, to 185 million. Butz now believes that the Soviets could eventually be in the market for 19 million tons-an amount equal to the 1972 purchases, which would raise prices of cereals, bakery products and grain-fed meat animals. At least some Administration officials would urge President Ford to stop any huge second round of grain sales. And last week the Agriculture Department ordered U.S. grain-export firms to advise it before beginning any new negotiations with Soviet buyers...