Word: pork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more than half the price of a few years ago. One result was that consumers were tucking away more beef than ever. The U.S. will eat 82 lbs. per capita this year, a pound more than in 1955 and almost 50% more than just five years ago, when pork was king. Beef is not only the biggest single item on the U.S. food bill (17? out of every food $1) but it is also the largest single source of U.S. agricultural income. Farmers and ranchers grossed more from beef in 1955 than for their crops of wheat, cotton...
Recipe. In West Harrison, Ind., police searched for the vandals who broke into a store, smashed 48 dozen eggs, added several sacks of flour, salt and sugar to the batter, sprinkled liberally with pork loins, hams, bacon slabs, 48 roasting chickens...
...typical day the President himself, accompanied by one adviser, rode to a restaurant in a stock-model Chevrolet, ordered a businessman's lunch of black beans and pork. Habitually hatless for the past 25 years, he wore one of the four Homburgs he bought in London during his preinauguration trip. "Nobody will recognize me with a hat on," he explained. Nobody...
...Hassle over Pork. As Ezra Benson moved across the U.S., such assistance was needed. In Chicago he trudged through the manure in the stockyards, spotted and sold (to a livestock commission buyer) a choice lot of hogs at $15.25 a hundredweight, 25? above the day's previous high. Given a stockman's cane as a souvenir of his feat, Benson later referred to the cane as a reminder that hogs should never "go below that price again." But before the week was out, the top for hogs in Chicago had slipped...
...Committee in Chicago, he read a lecture to the processors and distributors of meat products. Said he: "I have been extremely concerned in recent months that prices to farmers were going down while marketing margins were going up. In other words, low hog prices were not fully reflected in pork values to the consumer ... I am fully aware that total costs of processing and merchandising pork have gone up, as they have in other farm commodities. I believe firmly you're entitled to a fair return. But when one segment of the meat team is suffering, it cannot...