Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was one bit of happy news for consumers: predictions of record harvests this fall caused farm prices to fall 6% in the month ended April 15, the second straight decline. Citing lower livestock costs, the Hormel packing company cut the price of its meat products by 7% to 14%. Among other things, the price of Spam will drop...
...aroma of lasagna and meat balls fills the air, and amateur Carusos croon over the loudspeakers. There are grape-stomping contests and a step-by-step demonstration of how to make sfinge, an Italian confection. At the evening's end a spray of fireworks flares over the neighborhood as proud residents and guests clap and cheer, aware that they have seen the past and that on the Hill at least, it still works...
...largely unpoliced frontier between the zones eventually became one of the most open in Europe. Hundreds of Italian motorists daily crossed the line to buy Yugoslav meat and cheap gasoline in Zone B. The highway connecting the two zones became known as "washing-machine road"-a reference to the Western-made appliances that Yugoslav tourists brought home with them from shopping trips to Zone...
Contracts for July delivery of wheat, which sold in February for as much as $5.85 a bushel, are now down to about $4.10. Corn has dropped from $3.50 a bushel to $2.55; and soybeans have fallen from $9.03 to $5.35. A dive in demand for red meat at supermarkets, reflecting consumer resistance to high prices, has hit the cattle market. Steers last week sold for $41.50 per 100 Ibs. v. more than $50 in late January...
...nonperishable items in bulk (but remember that meat requires a costly home freezer). Motor oil in bulk at a hardware or discount store can be half as expensive as single quarts at a filling station. Products like flour, sugar, soap powder and dry pet food can be bought in 10-, 20-or 25-lb. quantities, then poured into smaller containers at home. In many localities it pays to buy wine and hard liquor by the half-gallon, beer by the case and cigarettes by the carton...