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...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...
...When lamb went under ceilings, the only outlet left was poultry. Chicken supplies were up 10%, but prices, free from ceilings, skyrocketed. Broilers and fryers are almost 50% above last year...
Boston, which needs a million pounds of meat a day, was getting only a fifth that much. On Thursday three carloads arrived instead of 75. People who wanted beans had to eat them without pork. People who wanted meat had to take lamb or poultry and pay the price. There were meat shortages also in Providence, Philadelphia, Cleveland, many another large city. Even in Chicago, meat center of the nation, some 50 independent butchers had too little stock to open their doors...
...right off the bat Food Boss Wickard called the croquettes excellent, the stew very good, ordered the scientists back to their laboratories to do the same for mutton & lamb...
Beef and veal production was up 20% in the January-April period, but the full year's output may not show as big a gain. Lamb and mutton marketings show almost no gain. Main reason: sheep are finicky creatures, and nasty weather "impaired" the spring lamb crop. Chicken-ranch owners, meanwhile, have boosted production...