Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ominous trend was a turn-around in farm prices. They had declined steadily from March through June, but July wholesale food and feed prices soared 6.4%, or 110.9% at an annual compound rate. The rise will surely push up supermarket prices in another month or two, particularly for red meat and poultry. Future prospects depend largely on the weather; the July jump reflected the early effects of the searing Midwestern drought (TIME, Aug. 12), which will reduce food supplies...
...item of the day: the legendary Butcher album. When the "Yesterday and Today" album first came out, it pictured The Beatles dressed as butchers and surrounded by wooden babies and chopped meat. Quite grotesque--too grotesque for the public taste in 1967. Capitol pasted new covers on the unreleased albums; mint-condition models of the original butchers are like two-dollar bills. Fans scurry up, hands reach out to touch the record, Instamatics and Nikons flash at the cover. A fellow in whitened jeans and a workshirt quietly offers $200--the stipulated minimum bid. There are no other takers...
...sort of an introduction to sex. They were cute men in suits, and they didn't look like your father." At hundreds of airports police erected barricades to protect the idols from those throbbing hearts; the Beatles staged daring escapes from their hotel rooms in refrigerated meat wagons. "I was in shock for five minutes," says a blonde girl wearing an over-sized "I Love Ringo" tee-shirt. Her eyes blur as she recalls her first sight of The Beatles: "Then it comes to you like total disbelief: These are them! You're seeing The Beatles, and they walk...
Though no food scarcities are yet anticipated, the prospect of smaller crops is already driving up farm prices. After a four-month decline, prices for raw farm products jumped 6% between June 15 and July 15. In that time, wholesale meat prices surged 16%. Corn prices on the Chicago Board of Trade last week stood at $3.65 per bu., up more than $1 from June, and some traders think that they will soon go to $5 or higher. At the same time, soybean prices rose from $5.25 per bu. in June to $8.50, and wheat from...
...major highway to Spain, a thousand fruit growers dumped tons of pears onto the roadway, creating a twelve-mile traffic jam. In Le Havre, Norman peasants stopped dockers from unloading beef from an Argentine ship and, in a variation of the old Boston Tea Party, threw tons of the meat into the Channel. In other areas farmers hung dead chickens in front of local officials' homes, let pigs and cattle loose in village streets, and even halted the sacrosanct Tour de France bicycle race by covering the road with nails...