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Your Business reporter in referring to gold-plated steaks from T. O. Pride [Nov. 4] has smeared the gold on with a lavish hand. Sirloin from this steer would be worth nearer $125 than $1,250 a pound. Perhaps in drooling over the thought of sirloin (with mushrooms) from this champion, his enthusiasm prompted him to place the decimal point one place too far to the right. Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Wrong. Eddie Williams, buyer of the prize steer, sticks to his figure of $1,250 a pound for choice top sirloin. He estimates that he will get roughly 34 pounds of top sirloin from the animal. But Williams' calculation does leave out the revenue from beef ribs, chuck, loin butt, etc. which he will sell at regular prices; this should come to nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Choice sirloin and T-bone steaks cost 20? a lb., prime rib roasts 15? a lb., chickens and lobsters 30? apiece. Excellent Haitian coffee was 12? a lb., sugar 6¢:, and there was no limit on anything. As a matter of course, an American household was staffed by five competent servants-houseboy, cook, maid, yardboy and laundress. Total monthly wages: around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Paradise 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Prize bulls had brought higher prices. But at $35.50 a lb., the 1,200-lb. T. 0. Pride was far & away the costliest meat of all time (previous record for a steer: $11.50 a lb.). Sirloin steak from T. 0. Pride would be worth about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Gold-Plated Steaks | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...hours, 18 minutes, was unspectacular, but her champagne luxury was something to cable home about. Her passengers were amazed by what they could eat, drink and buy in the shops. In the mammoth dining saloon amidships or in the tonier Verandah Grill on the afterdeck, first-class passengers ate sirloin steaks, Timbale de Volaille Périgord, pineapple souffle, coupe Jacques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Hail to the Queen | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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