Word: beefed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Average retail price of beef is 17% above a year ago; pork chops 34%; lard 70%; poultry 16%; eggs 23%; canned peas 22%. Hotels and restaurants reported butchers' bills up 37%. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food index covering 31 different items has climbed 7% since the year end, now standing 30% above February 1934, 83% above February 1933. Only a few staples like potatoes, cabbages, onions, bananas are selling lower than a year...
Meat prices jumped on the first Drought scare last summer but housewives brought the rise to a quick halt in September by stubbornly refusing to buy. Now that the beef and hog shortage is really a market factor meat prices are again climbing. The supply of fresh butter has dwindled so rapidly that dealers are drawing from storage 1,000,000 Ib. daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from...
...also short, had fluctuated violently. Soon the company found itself being slowly squeezed to death by a world-wide shortage of oils and fats which was aggravated when cottonseed oil output in the U. S. was cut by cotton acreage reduction, lard output by the corn-hog program, beef tallow by the Drought...
...camp daily whence it was shipped 300 miles to the studio laboratories to be developed. "Rushes"' returned to the location spot two days later. Though arduous, Sequoia was comparatively cheap to make since its principals, now on tour in cities where the picture will be shown, received only beef and carrots...
...into bootlegging, rubbed shoulders with a seedy underworld. When one night he almost "killed his infant_son in a rage, the shock turned him again to his almost-forgotten purpose. He turned over a leaf, promised Neloa to be "a good citizen, strong and solid, like a pile of beef. I'll be going to church soon. I'll be rocking my child on my knee and saying dada and goo-goo and oo-ittle-wubbity-wart. Virtues will be sticking out of me like candles out of a birthday cake. Squeeze me and I'll break...