Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pristine Dream. The islands they buy may not be guaranteed happy. But in an era of shortages there is still a good supply of them available round the world, and many are being grabbed up like supermarket chicken specials. From the Atlantic Coast to the Canaries and the South Seas, many hundreds of islands can still be had. One reason is that aging owners, weary of battling for a living by scrambling for cod and crab, yearn for electric power, television, supermarkets, big cars and safe jobs. The island seeker, by contrast, hunts for a happy isle as pristine...
...concentrated in farm animals. Millions of chickens had to be destroyed last March in Mississippi because their feed had been contaminated with dieldrin. The chemical also washes into rivers and lakes and is ingested by fish. In fact, dieldrin is now found in nearly every edible product in the supermarket. A 1973 market-basket sampling by the Food and Drug Administration shows 96% of meat, fish and poultry was contaminated, and tests by the EPA have found that 99.5% of the population have some dieldrin in their body fat with an average residue level of 0.3 parts per mil lion...
...most ominous trend was a turn-around in farm prices. They had declined steadily from March through June, but July wholesale food and feed prices soared 6.4%, or 110.9% at an annual compound rate. The rise will surely push up supermarket prices in another month or two, particularly for red meat and poultry. Future prospects depend largely on the weather; the July jump reflected the early effects of the searing Midwestern drought (TIME, Aug. 12), which will reduce food supplies...
...least one was-Sally Kellerman, 30 pounds overweight then and always unhappy in love. "I would sit on Jack's lap and pour out my heart to him," she says. For sustenance they would go to the supermarket for some "sweeties and souries"-ice cream and potato chips-and gorge between traumas. "Jack was the funniest man in the world," Kellerman recalls, "and always available when I needed him-a true friend...
...During the summer some can make a modest living by guiding tourists on foot or horseback down to spectacular Havasu Falls, not far from their village. In winter, however, they are cut off, often for weeks, from the nearest medical aid and supplies. Groceries must be brought from a supermarket 110 miles away in Kingman, Ariz, and sell in the village co-op store for as much as 40% over the regular retail price-an enormous drain on the average Havasupai income of $700 a year...