Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hors d'Oeuvres: caviar, ham, roast beef, salted salmon, carp, sheep cheese, salami, potato salad, stuffed eggs, and fresh tomatoes with chopped green onion tops...
...POTATO PRICE QUIZ by the U.S. Agriculture Department flushed more evidence of market rigging (TIME, June 20). The Government charged Manhattan's Jacob Stern & Co. with virtually cornering the supply of cash potatoes on the New York Mercantile Exchange in February so that it could juggle prices. The shortage that made cornering easier is ending. Government forecasters expect that the summer crop may be 20% over last year...
...POTATO PANIC on the New York Mercantile Exchange a fortnight ago (TIME, June 13) was the result of an attempt to manipulate prices, says the U.S. Agriculture Department. Agriculture charges that Winn & Lovett Grocery Co., a big southern retail chain (200 stores in five states), tried to force prices down by circulating "false, misleading or knowingly inaccurate reports," and that the company sold 1,003 car lots of May potato futures "with knowledge of the fact that they did not have and would be unable to obtain potatoes to deliver...
...that reason, authorities suspect that Manhattan's potato traders had frantically flooded the exchange with sell orders, hoping to scare prices down to the point where they could buy at a low enough figure to meet their original contract commitments at a profit. But the city slickers' trick did not work; Maine's farmers had aIready sent the bulk of their crop to market...
...with Director Billy Wilder, concerns a middle-aged Manhattan husband who spends the summer in the city while his wife and son are enjoying the Maine breezes. Into his enforced celibacy comes the girl upstairs, an uninhibited hoyden from Denver who powerfully blends naiveté with sex-she dunks potato chips in champagne, begs for "more sugar" in her martini, artlessly boasts of posing in the nude, feels that it is all right to do "anything," with Ewell since there is no danger of his wanting to marry her. Ewell is already equipped with a vivid, Mittylike imagination (he daydreams...