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More impressive even than its sky-high size is Lyons' style. Lyons provides everything from buns to banquets (for thousands), with an atmosphere of elegance, and at low prices. The term "nippy", with which Lyons tagged its waitresses after a sprucing-up campaign in 1925, has become a British household word for an efficient, pleasant servant...
...production, the nation focused anxious eyes last week on Bob Kleberg and his fellow U.S. cattlemen. This year they will send to slaughter an estimated record 36 million head of cattle. This tremendous movement of cattle from the ranges and feed lots has tended recently to force down the sky-high prices of meat in spite of the voracious demand. But now that the seasonal period of plenty is about over, what is the outlook for prices and supply? It is dark-if present demand continues...
...Kleberg is free of the current problem of cattlemen-the sky-high price of corn for feeding. He is one of the small percentage of U.S. cattlemen who use virtually no grain. He has the vast acreage to grass-feed his cattle the year round, and his 82,000 Santa Gertrudis cattle now give as much beef as the ranch once got from 125,000 of its English breeds. He is planning to increase his herds...
...first time he had mentioned "police state," Clark Clifford, his chief speechwriter, who was sitting behind him, had visibly stiffened. One big part of Democratic campaign strategy was sure to be an attempt to blame high prices on the Republicans, to insist that the G.O.P. had sent them sky-high by scuttling OPA. And here was the President, head of the Democratic Party, damning all controls as tools of dictatorship. It might well turn out to be the political boner of the year...
Prohibitive Prices. Now that animals are being delivered to the U.S. from abroad in quantity, Perkins is anxious to enlarge his entire collection, which, like most others, lost some specimens during the war. But animal prices are sky-high (nearly double prewar), and Perkins has little money for purchases. Last week, when a boatload of animals came in from Singapore, he made a quick round of dealers in Manhattan and Camden, N.J. He especially wanted an orangutan: the $3,500 price tag was prohibitive. Instead he chose a pair of cheetahs ($1,800), a sacred ibis ($65), a patas monkey...