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...Chicago stockyards last week Iowa Cattle Feeder Joe Dingman sold a twelve-ton load of 20 prime-fed Aberdeen Angus steers for $9,492.60. The price was a near-record 39? per lb., highest since 1952 and far more than the 27? per lb. that prime beef brought a year ago. Other beef prices climbed as much as 1½? per lb. last week, and the average-grade steer brought about 28? v. 21.7 the same week in 1957. This was good news for beef raisers, glum news for beefeaters. Each 1½ boost will bring almost a 2? rise...
Prices were up not only because of the big consumer demand but because livestock producers were sending fewer cattle to market. Shipments of beef cattle to the nation's dozen major stockyards last week ran 13% below last year. Output was low because the long drought in the Southwest had helped cut cattle population by almost 3,000,000 head since January...
...riot as his fans mobbed him. Another gallery is now showing seven large Buffet canvases of the life of Joan of Arc. ¶ Georges Mathieu, a shrewd showman (Paris publicity head of United States Lines), who scoots about in a 1924 Rolls, stuffs his mouth with diced raw beef like a kid gobbling popcorn. His self-dubbed "spontaneous creations" are flashy signatures squeezed in a frenzy straight from the paint tubes onto one-tone backgrounds. ¶ Edouard Pignon, who went from coal mining and a Citroen assembly line to painting Picasso-flavored landscapes, now adds a lyrical personal tempo...
...Beef & Macy's. Everyone expects the U.S. consumer to start buying more of everything soon. Purchasing power has been held up by unemployment compensation and other benefits. Furthermore, despite the jobless rise, overall U.S. employment remains high. Some 50% of the unemployment rise is in manufacturing industries (autos, aircraft), which employ only 23% of the total labor force. The service industries, which employ 35%, show no recession, have held remarkably steady, with little or no change over the last three months...
Bush, consisting of cream cheese balls rolled in chopped dried beef...