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...When I hear some Sears & Roebuck pistol-toting cowboy from Brooklyn insinuate how the Government has tailed up the farmer at the expense of all the rest of the people," said Republican Burdick, it does not set well with me ... You complain against the beef men. I am one of them . . . I am willing to take a loss on my cattle, and it means $8,000 loss to me on the one rollback. I am willing to stand for that if it will help the entire country .; . If I was concerned only with my own interests, I would vote against...
...last half of June, pushing the food-price index 12% above the pre-Korean level. But there were surpluses-and probably lower prices-ahead. Farm planting, said the Agriculture Department, is at the highest level since 1933. In the stockyards, even the price of beef eased off a bit, as a heavy flow of cattle came to market. But most businessmen still thought the lull was just a temporary breather...
Bread . . . Corn Beef Hash, etc., etc." In 1914 it opened a U.S.-style barbershop...
Customer's Beef. In Tulsa, Okla., after they advertised that they would give a cow to anyone who could decipher the OPS meat regulations, Grocers Wes & "Choo" Phillips tried to head off an insistent housewife whose 850-word explanation was approved by the local OPS, finally compromised, awarded her a side of choice steer...
...expert, Mary Cullen. Horsemeat, hitherto eaten as a stunt or only as a last resort, was becoming an important item on Portland tables. Now there were three times as many horse butchers, selling three times as much meat. In the Portland markets, horse sirloins are 35? a pound, while beef is $1.14; horse tenderloins 45?, compared to $1.95-$2.15 for beef. People who used to pretend that it was for the dog now came right out and said it was going on the table. In the face of high beef prices, the old grey mare, obviously, was more than...