Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buenos Aires the British motorship Gascony floated quietly at her dock, prepared to sail for England with British volunteers and a cargo of canned meat...
...Speculation in meat packing and paper stocks...
...idea. But they do know that in small amounts it prevents ulcer growth without inhibiting gastric secretion. Prize patient is the experimenters' laboratory janitor, who was an ulcer man for almost a decade. Now, after a year of fortnightly injections, he has no pain, smokes cigars, eats red meat, drinks beer...
Commodity markets also turned about last week. The volatile hide market rose ¾?, moved 100,000 hides in two days before Chicago meat packers, anticipating still higher prices next fall, stopped offering more. Another push came from one of the U. S.'s weakest commodities, cotton; spot prices moved up 68 points, touched off a 100,000,000-yard buying move by cotton textile users fearful of a war famine and the possibility that Congress would raise the level of parity payments, up cotton's price. The battered grain markets, which had taken the worst beating during...
...sponsors: a number of New Deal braintrusters, worried businessmen, clearing through the State Department's Assistant-Secretary-at-large Adolf Augustus Berle. Economic Fireman Berle and conferees noted that in 1938 Latin America alone grossed about $1,200,000,000 from overseas sales of coffee, meat, sugar, wool, cotton, hides and skins, wheat, corn. Their idea: to form a kind of Hemispheric Surplus Commodities Corporation to buy up these surpluses, store them, sell them at a discount to the Red Cross, or do anything to keep them off the U. S. market. Such action would be simply an expensive...