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...even the wisdom of John Anderson's call for a 50?-per-gal. gasoline tax, but how to pay this winter's heating-oil bill. Meanwhile, Roger Christensen, an Ogden, Iowa, hog farmer, finds wild gyrations in interest rates to be his trouble. He finances poultry, pork and corn production with variable interest rate bank loans, and consequently no longer knows what his overhead will be from one season to the next. Says he: "I don't think the average voter can understand the economy, and I certainly don't have the solutions. But no candidate...
Drawing on the cheap labor of immigrants from New Bedford and Portugal were the Cambridge furniture, rubber, oil cloth and pork-packing industries. A few workers had skills as woodworkers or typesetters, but a majority of the 3000 Portuguese living in East Cambridge then were unskilled; the men earned about $12 a week, the women about half that. InThe Zone of Emergence,the Portuguese problems are catalogued...
...least the next six months. Says Rodney Kite, director of agricultural forecasting at Evans Economics in Washington: "Food will be in the forefront of inflation the rest of this year. By December a pound of hamburger or chicken will cost 15% more than it did in June. Pork chops will be 20% higher." Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources Inc., an economic-forecasting firm, says that by next spring prices of farm products will be up 24% from last spring...
Instead, chronic complainers all, they blame Edward Gierek and the Soviets and tell bitter jokes to relieve the frustration. Like the one about the old woman who hobbles into a butcher shop and asks first for pork roast, then for lamb, then for veal. On being told that there is none, she storms out. "What a nuisance," gripes the first butcher. "Maybe," replies the second, "but what a memory...
...dispute about the right of blacks not simply to eat at lunch counters but to sit down there with whites . . ." The interrelation of men and menus has filled hundreds of texts. But none of them have digested so many facts so well. Wittily, the authors explain why Muslims eschew pork (pigs would have been an ecological disaster in the Middle East) and why chicken soup -so-called Jewish penicillin-really does help to cure a cold (it comforts nasal passages). They show why Chinese drink no milk, discuss the Aztec hunger for human flesh (people who ate people were...