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Last week a Federal grand jury indicted Pete Golas, ten other men and seven companies for conspiracy to evade price ceilings on meat. OPA investigators said that Pete and his henchmen took $650,000 "cash on the side" while selling $3,000,000 worth of beef in New York and New Jersey. Price Boss Prentiss Brown called Pete the nation's No. 1 meatlegger...
...thing the U.S. troops were learning was a healthy respect for the British. Said one American who watched the action at Fondouk: "I wish that those American strategists who beef about the British in the Stork Club could have breathed the dust of this valley today...
...mutton, a package of green beans. That was all she needed : her husband is in the Army, she lives alone. But against the day when her soldier comes home on furlough the 350-lb. locker is packed with good things to eat - parts of two sheep, big pieces of beef and pork, five fat chickens, some wall-eyed pike, a panful of crappies, asparagus, beans, peaches...
...minus 20-30° F., wrapped in special paper, stored away in the lockers at zero. Modern food banks are really small local packing plants. For the farmer some food banks will slaughter, chill, cut, smoke or freeze, and package. For the urbanite they buy whole sides of beef from the meat wholesaler, cut it to chops, store it away. Extra charges: 1? to 5? a Ib. Even so, locker renters save 50 to 75% compared with retail meat prices; many a farmer eats choice beef...
...sending me parcels of food. Apparently they're all under the impression that we are starving in this country." Meat rationing in Britain he found "fine . . . fine, but it doesn't go far enough. I'd abolish meat altogether. It's true no doubt that beef made Old England what it is-but look what...