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...dropped in at a barbershop, paused at a fruit stand to buy an apple, which he munched as he moved on. In the garment district he crawled up on the back of a truck and spoke to the crowd, then sat at a diner counter and had a corned beef on rye, with mustard...
...Japanese hotels ($9 to $15 for a double room) have all the comforts of home, but in the provinces tourists should be prepared for hard beds, little heat and no inside plumbing. Japanese food is generally heartier than Chinese cooking, with tender steaks and sizzling sukiyaki, a thin-sliced beef dish cooked at tableside. Things to buy: tortoise shell, pearls, lacquerware, porcelain, embroidered kimonos, art, furs, cameras, binoculars...
...paid for the increase? The evidence is that most of it was paid by ranchers and farmers-who paid by taking lower prices for meat animals." As evidence. Benson cited Agriculture Department figures showing that in the fourth quarter of last year the average farm price of choice beef was 19% below the last quarter of 1954, but the retail price was down only...
Benson believes that the widening spread between farm and retail prices is due not only to increased handling costs but to a bigger cut to the middlemen. From the first quarter of 1955 to the end of the year, the average price paid to farmers for choice beef cattle dropped $4.15 per 100 Ibs. But only $1.57 of this saving was passed on to consumers in the form of price cuts. The rest of the difference was soaked up by an increase in the shares of the middlemen; packers and wholesalers increased their take per pound by $1.08, while retailers...
...Collects? Are middlemen increasing their profits at the expense of the farmers? They deny it, argue that increased costs for wages (up 16% in the packing industry from 1954 to 1955), trucking, etc. helped keep the price of beef up. Furthermore, the great increase in processing, e.g., for frozen and readycut meats, builds in costs that make retail prices react slower to wholesale price drops...