Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some Slump." Macmillan's short-range remedies achieved one short-range objective: the pound stopped its decline on the world's money markets. But they did not attack the deeper illness: the failure of British productivity to keep pace with world competition. In a nation where even Tories seem hypnotized by the problem of slicing up the available cake rather than increasing its size, the problem is seldom even discussed. But last week a stocky, grey-haired manufacturer named Harry Pardoe, from Lancashire's textile industry, spoke...
...musicians discovered they could make a kind of music with tubes of bamboo. "Bamboo-tamboo" bands competed with each other, thunking large-bore tubes on the ground and whacking smaller sticks together in the air to create a rich polyrhythmic effect; onlookers, unable to resist the compelling beat, would pound anything that would make noise. But by the early '30s bamboo was on its way out-the police had found that the sticks were too likely to be used as weapons. Then Port-of-Spain musicians turned to garbage-can tops and biscuit tins. Someone-maybe"Spree" Simon...
...penny, in for a pound...
...choice beef cattle dropped $4.15 per 100 Ibs. But only $1.57 of this saving was passed on to consumers in the form of price cuts. The rest of the difference was soaked up by an increase in the shares of the middlemen; packers and wholesalers increased their take per pound by $1.08, while retailers took $1.50 additional...
...entire profit from meat sales. A large part of it comes from byproducts, e.g., hides and tallow. This permits the packer to live off a very low markup, or none at all, on the meat itself; e.g., in 1951, packers actually sold meat to wholesalers at less per pound than they had paid the farmers. Nevertheless. Swift still had a profit of $12 million. In short, the elimination of all the packers' profits on meat sales would have little effect on the farmer...