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Word: sirloin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flesh. In Smithville, Ohio, Long's Market felt the pinch, advertised for "a good home for a male coach dog; very fond of sirloin steaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...most effective controls on meat began to come last week from the housewives themselves. They were refusing to pay $1.30 a Ib. for loin of lamb, $1.10 and up for sirloin, as much as 70^ for hamburger. "The way people are buying," grumped Chicago Butcher Louis Blut, "I think they are living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: From Icebox to Deep Freeze | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Scale of Values. In Yonkers, N.Y., the burglar who broke into David Stein's home passed up silverware and jewelry, carried off a loin of pork, 2 Ibs. of chopped beef, a 3-lb. sirloin steak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...other prices continued to edge up, Iowa's white-haired Democratic Senator Guy Gillette and his Agriculture subcommittee decided to investigate. It called leading U.S. packers and retailers to Washington last week to find out why the price of sirloin steak in July had risen from 88? a Ib. to $1.10, then dropped to 98?, then bounded up close to $1.10 again. During all this time, the price of beef on the hoof was virtually unchanged. The explanation, as everyone expected, was simple. The packers and retailers had jacked up prices when the Korean war touched off a burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shave & Haircut, Oh Boy | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Some of the rises could be blamed on scare buyers. Last week, hoarding housewives still roamed the nation's stores and markets, snatching up prizes. In Boston, sirloin steak went to $2 a pound. In Washington, a psychology-minded grocer put a sign out front: "Special: 5 Pounds Sugar, 98 cents"-just twice the price at the store across the street. By closing time, clamoring customers had bought 1,000 Ibs. In Allegan, Mich., a man asked to exchange a bag of badly caked sugar, confessed he had 250 pounds more just like it that he had hoarded from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Command the Tide | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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