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Naked children scuttled to cover behind mud huts. Startled vultures lurched up from the roadway. Down the muddy roads of Venezuela's back country roared a ten-ton Fruehauf truck-trailer. Loaded with chilled beef from the Government's new slaughterhouse at inland Calabozo, it was bound on a twelve-hour haul to the meat-hungry markets of Caracas...
Besides Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure. This week work was expected to start on another slaughterhouse at Barinas. Already caraqueños found llano meat in the markets at 27? a Ib. Last spring they had paid three times as much...
...abandoned its dream of a complete rollback, and began rewriting the retail price lists which would go into effect Sept. 9. Consumers would probably pay about 6? a pound more for beef, 3? more for pork than they had when ceilings were taken off meat. But the average would be lower (by 25% for beef, 40% for pork) than in last month's free market...
Baffled Lion. A British trade mission was getting nowhere. Perón, who had assumed control of all meat shipments abroad (including those of British-owned packing plants), wanted to hike beef prices 200%, asked 2½% interest on Argentina's $750 million sterling credit, now frozen in Britain. Mission Chief Sir Wilfrid Eady was surprised by this "cold hostility." He packed his negotiators across the Plata Estuary to Uruguay, waited to see if Perón would change his mind...
...them into effect in the butcher shops. Nobody knew what they would be, although OPA Boss Paul Porter guessed "at or near June 30 levels." But lamb feeders, cut off from a $36 million Government subsidy, were sure their product would have to jump at least 5? a lb. Beef feeders, still smarting under similar subsidy treatment, figured 1#162; a Ib. Meanwhile, meat producers frantically rushed their crops to market (see BUSINESS...