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...investigate. It called leading U.S. packers and retailers to Washington last week to find out why the price of sirloin steak in July had risen from 88? a Ib. to $1.10, then dropped to 98?, then bounded up close to $1.10 again. During all this time, the price of beef on the hoof was virtually unchanged. The explanation, as everyone expected, was simple. The packers and retailers had jacked up prices when the Korean war touched off a burst of buying, then cut them when housewives balked at the increase. Explained Swift & Co. Vice President Paul C. Smith...
Most packers thought that meat prices would dip a bit this fall, when big quantities of beef and hogs start moving to market. Meat production is expected to increase 20% over this quarter in the heaviest cattle slaughter since 1944, and consumers should benefit by the big supplies on hand...
Argentines woke up one morning last week to find that, overnight, second-grade beef had shot up from 5 to 8 pesos a kilo, cigarettes from 1 peso to 1.50 for a pack of ten, cheap rum from 11 to 16 a bottle.* The rocketing prices were the result of a major overhaul of the nation's economy by the members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos...
...peso is worth around six cents. Though the increases horrified local residents, dollar-bearing tourists still found it possible to regard beef at 25 cents a pound and rum at $1 a bottle with equanimity...
...airy, well-lighted public rooms. Among the new features: a blossom-stuffed conservatory, a mural-lined children's dining-room, a small music salon where traveling musicians can practice. In the hold, to dine & wine the passengers on the six-day crossing, were eight tons of prime beef, 60,000 eggs, 5,000 bottles of champagne...