Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sept. 17]. The description of a Big Mac as something "whose interstices are occupied by alternating dollops of onions, pickle chips," etc., represents rare artistry. One is reminded of the joke about the beef shortage getting so bad that McDonald's is down to its last pound of meat, so that, alas, it can serve only 1,000,000 more hamburgers! Founder Kroc's observation that "when you are in this business you are in show business" is right on target...
Hamburger is meat and averages 18% to 20% protein, plus many vitamins and minerals. The buns have 12% to 14% protein from wheat, plus minerals and vitamins. The cheese is an excellent source of calcium and a B vitamin called riboflavin. If a milkshake is consumed, there is additional calcium, riboflavin and protein. Potatoes are a nutritious food...
...given this example because it is very clear. We, who have foreign currency reserves superior to that in many Latin American countries, who have land that could feed, and should feed, 20 or 25 million people, we have had to import, since always--no one remembers when it started--meat, wheat, lard, butter and cooking oil: 200 million dollars a year...
...what has become an all too standard ritual, the consumer price report showed that food prices accounted for most of the overall rise, reflecting higher costs for a variety of goods, including meat, fish, eggs, bread and milk. Echoing Administration spokesmen who sought to talk down the importance of the wholesale price report for August two weeks earlier, Gary Seevers, a member of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, pointed out that farm-level prices for some food commodities have substantially declined since August. But Dunlop was not having any of that. "I'm very much concerned with...
While most of the country survived on short rations, the truckers seemed unusually well equipped for a lengthy holdout. Recently, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch visited a group of truckers camped near Santiago who were enjoying a lavish communal meal of steak, vegetables, wine and empanadas (meat pies). "Where does the money for that come from?" he inquired. "From the CIA," the truckers answered laughingly. In Washington, the CIA denied the allegation...