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...Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped again-as prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices as high as $23.70 a cwt., griped because the embargo was still...
...Cattlemen kept hammering the government to restore their "natural market" (TIME, Jan. 12, 26). Last month, Agriculture Minister James Gardiner boldly announced that the embargo was coming off "soon." It looked like a shrewd move to win friends in the west and help Gardiner capture the Liberal Party leadership in August. But the mere promise of action sent cattle and beef prices up. That made consumers sore. And when Gardiner's great day seemed too long a-coming, cattlemen growled their disappointment...
Allowing $4 a cwt. for shipping, shrinkage and 1 ½? lb. duty, Canadian cattlemen could still have made about $8 more by selling south of the border last week. Growers argued that it wasn't the dollars so much as "a solid U.S. market" for the future that they wanted. The best bet was that the government would give it to them in midsummer. Then, packers predicted, sirloin would go to $1.10 a lb. in Ottawa-or to whatever outrageous figure U.S. buyers are paying at the time...
...through the hot morning they streamed into Baton Rouge-wool-hatted farmers, "Cajuns" with whiskey on their hips, gamblers, cattlemen, oilmen, old folks and bobby-soxers. They came by train, bus, automobile and even on yachts. The Longs were coming back into power: Huey's greying, gravel-voiced brother Earl was being inaugurated governor of Louisiana...
...nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...