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...Jack Leland of Charleston's News & Courier). Whatever his specific job, each was intensely aware of the business and farm booms still accelerating in the South. All spoke of the rising standard of living for both Negroes and whites; the continuing switchover to diversified crops, the rise in beef raising on improved grasslands, the increase of tobacco poundage on limited acreage, the tobacco industry's efforts to sell abroad and the fast growth of chemical and textile manufacturing...
Rollback In Beef. The most thunderous salvo of the week was fired by Price Controller Mike Di Salle. He ordered an 18% cut (about 5? a Ib.) by next Oct. 1 in the price that may be paid for live cattle. He also fixed dollars & cents ceilings on wholesale and retail beef prices, and set up stand-by machinery for beef rationing (although price officials hastened to say that they saw no prospect of rationing in the near future...
Price officials glibly estimated that their day's work would roll beef prices back to pre-Korea levels, save housewives an estimated $700 million a year. Lower prices should be seen in butcher shops by Aug. 1, they said, and by Oct. 1 beef should be down about 10? a Ib. In New York and other cities, beef prices are the highest they have ever been, and there is also a shortage of beef, although the U.S. cattle population is 2% to 3% higher than last year. Di Salle's men said that even after they had rolled...
There are some people who don't like this kind of thing, just as there are some people who don't like Li'l Abner or corned beef and cabbage. Nevertheless, the Pops, by combining atmosphere with good music and low prices, has become--for better or for worse--a national institution. --lower case
...months meat shipments had been suspended because Socialist bulk-buyers refused to pay Argentina's price. Minister of Food Maurice Webb said in January that Britain could not pay more than ?120 ($336) per long ton. Last week's agreed price was ?146 ($408) for chilled beef, ?126 ($352) for frozen. In return, the British got a few concessions, including permission for British investors in Argentina to transfer funds home. However, the essence of the new contract was that Britain had toed the Argentine line-and might just as well have done so without ten months of meat...