Word: sirloin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheapest grade of cooking oil shot up from 17? to 38? a liter (current Manhattan price: 47? a qt.). In Buenos Aires good sirloin steak that had cost 18? a Ib. the day before sold for 28? (Manhattan price: 79?). A housewives' group called on Congressmen, persuaded anti-Perón deputies to introduce a resolution to investigate the high cost of living...
...housewives read the bad news in their store windows every day. A sirloin steak which cost 79? a pound in Denver last fall now sold for $1.15. In Atlanta, a $60 suit now cost $65. Across the nation, cigarettes were up 1?a pack...
Canada's lower meat prices have long been the envy of U.S. housewives. Last week, T-bone steaks were 70? a lb. in Lethbridge and sirloin was 75? in Ottawa. This was a third less than New Yorkers were paying, but Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped again-as prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices...
...more by selling south of the border last week. Growers argued that it wasn't the dollars so much as "a solid U.S. market" for the future that they wanted. The best bet was that the government would give it to them in midsummer. Then, packers predicted, sirloin would go to $1.10 a lb. in Ottawa-or to whatever outrageous figure U.S. buyers are paying at the time...
...Post gave readers a bite-by-bite account of 21 elaborate meals, from scrambled eggs to sirloin steaks, eaten by Senator and Mrs. Taft on their campaign trek through the West (TIME, Oct. 6). The Post's sarcastic purpose: "To determine-from Senator Taft's example . . . how the average American should ration himself." Broadcaster Don Hollenbeck, referee of the weekly CBS Views the Press, promptly called a foul. Said Hollenbeck, who doesn't like Bob Taft either: "It was quite a propaganda job. . . . The purpose was ... to make Mr. Taft and his hosts...