Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gimo had a list of specific changes demanded by the new austerity: fewer passenger cars and more buses; fewer attendants and servants for public officials; less meat, tobacco, wine, candies and superstitious use of joss paper; cheaper weddings, funerals and gifts on holidays; a boycott of dance halls and gambling; heavy taxes on luxuries; severe penalties for government offices which steal water...
...hold off for better prices from middlemen, and Brazil will have to import less wheat. Another joint company has set up four model hog farms in São Paulo State, where farmers can get the word on scientific breeding and feeding. Local packers on the lookout for better meat have been persuaded to invest heavily in this outfit...
...from Attorney General Tom Clark's office last week went some long-awaited "big news." The news was that the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, with an election-year ear tuned to the static made by high meat prices, was going after the "meat monopoly...
...suit filed in Chicago, Clark charged that the four big packers, Armour, Cudahy, Wilson and Swift, were monopolizing the trade in federally inspected meat (the only meat that may be shipped across state borders). The Big Four, said the Attorney General, sold 58% of the cattle, 54% of the hogs, 68% of the calves, and 79% of all the sheep slaughtered under federal inspection. He accused them of getting together on buying & selling prices, and setting sales quotas to keep prices...
Strong Flavor. Packers angrily yelped that Tom Clark was after a political goat for the high meat prices; the packers have repeatedly said that those prices were caused by a shrinking supply and enormous demand. Snapped Swift's President John Holmes: "The suit is an unproved charge, with strong political flavor. I am certain that [the packers] will be completely exonerated when all the facts are presented." The packers thought that Clark would have trouble making his charges stick. Eleven times in 50 years the Government had sued the big packers; it had won only twice. A year...