Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meat preparation area, DuFour told us that over 19008-ounce steaks were sliced for steak night. Soup was cooking in 80 gallon vats on one side of the kitchen and trays of lasagna were piled ten high on the other side...
...ruined the raisin grape crop as it was drying, driving up the price more than 50% to $700 per ton. At that price few bakers can afford them. A shortage of sesame seeds will denude the seeded hamburger bun. Because turkey has become a popular substitute for more expensive meat, flocks are smaller than they have been in any fourth quarter in the past decade. The result: the birds will retail at anywhere from 75? to $1.09 a pound, up sharply from last year...
Just as employees work for the capitalists, so too the money squeezed from their wages must be made to "work" in the stock and commodities markets, driving up the price of livestock feed so high, for example, that meat prices go out of sight...
Four men have arranged a weekend of undisturbed eating at a fenced-in country house once owned by the classical poet Boileau-Despreaux. Their arrival is followed by the arrival of the meat truck bearing wild boar, lamb, beef. Each carcass is ceremoniously described: "Three dozen young Ardennes roosters...two superb, soft-eyed deer, the flesh redolent...ten dozen semi-wild game hens...
...motives to the Soviets, Jackson is not likely to be proved gullible or an easy mark. On the other hand, détente will not be achieved without taking some calculated risks on both sides. What U.S. diplomacy lacked before Kissinger was a certain creative imagination. Jackson's meat-ax approach threatens to cut off any new departures before they can be proved successful...