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...Beef on the range is abundant, but steers in the fattening pens are 19% below last year. For one thing, the Army is willing to pay top prices for sound if stringy range cattle. For another, the beef-corn ratio is too low-feeders are afraid the cost of fattening would be more than the beef would bring. Even though there is no price ceiling for steers, the packers are holding the bids down to a level where they can break even when they resell the steers as meat. And that level is too low to make fattening profitable with...
...Retail price ceilings have been clapped on lamb, which was exempted last April because it was then so far below parity. When there was not enough beef and pork to go around, housewives took lamb, bid up the price so fast that Leon Henderson thought...
...Government buying is heaviest in ham, corned beef and other cured meats. The public will have to learn to eat more fresh pork and like it. Curing facilities are limited, so there will be a glut of fresh-killed pigs when the fall crop of shotes comes to market in October...
...party moved into the dining room. The White House gold-and-silver service flashed in the noon sun. Tables were spread with platters of jellied salmon, jellied vegetable rings, hot chicken sandwiches, roast beef, a mountainous wedding cake frosted with signs of the Zodiac, doves and a big American eagle. Corks popped from magnums of champagne. President Roosevelt made a little speech...
Despite record-breaking production, there is not enough beef or pork for everybody-for the Government is buying 30% of the kill for Lend-Lease and the Army, and the new rich are buying meat as never before. The shortage struck first in cities where the ceiling prices were lowest: the packers, squeezed between ceilings and rising hog and steer prices, naturally preferred to sell where the squeeze hurt least...