Word: pork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm politicians, who see a congressional election coming up in 1958 with no Eisenhower on the ticket, feared that the downturn in parity indicated that the farm slump has still not hit bottom. They also saw a risk that null relatively good hog prices will stimulate an oversupply of pork in 1958, that a 4% increase in cattle now in feedlots will mean lower prices for quality steaks and roasts this fall, that current low prices for eggs (7½ a dozen under last year at the farm) will continue, and that the price supports under dairy products...
...point, Batista miscalculated. He pulled back all but a thin circle of troops, and waited for the rebels to surrender or flee. Instead, new recruits slipped through into the mountains almost daily. In sharp skirmishes, the rebels captured rifles and machine guns. Currently, the guerrillas are living well on pork, chicken, fresh fruit and vegetables from nearby farms, which Castro buys with personally autographed IOUs, payable "when the revolution wins." Operating in platoons of 22 men each, they sleep in the open, and in a different spot every night. They can strike and then disappear into the trees...
...record national income and spending pressed hard on prices. The Department of Agriculture reported that consumers would pay more for pork in 1957, and possibly for better-grade beef. Last week, alarmed by the burst of price increases, Washington began taking notice and action. Two congressional committees laid plans to investigate the hike in gasoline prices, and the Department of Justice launched a third probe into a possible price-fixing conspiracy. In an attempt to keep sugar prices from soaring higher, the Agriculture Department again increased sugar-marketing quotas, the second time in less than a month. But as consumer...
FARM-INCOME RISE is expected for 1957. Agriculture Department says that heavy exports, soil-bank payments, rising population, will push up farmers' income despite rising costs of farm labor, equipment. Higher prices are predicted for pork, fruit, vegetable oils, feed grains. But prices will edge down for eggs, vegetables...
Watching the night flares burst above the fighting was one veteran observer of battle who had seen The Peculiar War from the start. In Pork Chop Hill, Detroit Newsman S.L.A. (for Samuel Lyman Atwood) Marshall, 56, again proves his talent for dramatizing the down-to-mud reality of the average American's experience in combat. His newest book puts the microscope to a phase of combat little known to the U.S. public: the painful, drawn-out stalemate (1952-53) that anti-climaxed the Korean war. "One funda mental question," says Marshall in his preface, "in Korea...