Word: sirloin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between tussles with the sirloin, Richard H. Sullivan '39 chairman of the House Committee, introduced a list of speakers including Housemaster Julian L. Coolidge '96, Adolph W. Samborski, '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, who presented the trophy to Ronald R. Boyd '38, House athletic secretary; William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, Norman Fradd, Director of Physical Education, and George Scott '36, who coached the Bellboy oarsmen this spring...
...strike, even U. S. bachelors recognized a situation which had irked U. S. housewives all year-meat prices were at a six-year peak (TIME, Oct. 4 & 18). By mid-January the U. S. Department of Agriculture recorded retail meat prices way down from their peaks of September 30-sirloin steak from 48? to 32? a lb., leg of lamb from 29? to 26?, pork chops from 42? to 29?, veal cutlets from 43? to 39?. By last week wholesale cattle prices were off 43% since September 30, lambs 37%, hogs 37% and cattlemen were marketing their herds at losses...
...Palmer House for 457 such friends of the livestock and meat industry as Chairman William Bishop Warner of the National Association of Manufacturers, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Railroader John Jeremiah Pelley, Editor Glenn Frank, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Convening from all over the nation, the 457 spent 180 minutes eating sirloin beef roast and hearing how the I. A. M. P. was girding up its sirloins to battle against underconsumption...
...most serious rise has been in the price of meat. The less expensive cuts are up ten percent over last year, while such items as sirloin steak are 35 percent higher. Although sirloin steak may possibly be rarer in the future, Westcott disclosed that the University would still serve ten tons of roast beef every month...
...likewise long been absent. Reason for both these facts is, as every housewife knows, the current high price of meat. Last week choice steers were selling for $19.50 a cwt. in Chicago, highest price in 18 years, and angry housewives had to pay 47½?; a Ib. for sirloin which they could buy two years ago for 36? and which cost but 52? in the boom year...