Weekly Food Review highlights price shifts this week
Prices for boxs chicken and lamb rose slightly across most retail stores while pork cuts edged down by a few cents per pound. Beet veal and dairy items stayed largely unchanged as produce prices fluctuated with quality, with Macintosh apples beets and cucumbers showing higher values and asparagus from California and cantaloupe from Mexico easing.
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Associated Press
California
Canteloupe
Mexico
Texas Onion Crop Hits Slow Demand As Prices Edge Down
Shipments rise while markets for beans carrots celery eggplant chicory peppers and spinach show weakness. First Texas onion cargo arrives northeastern stores with weak demand and Chicago futures hit low levels since 1942. Broilers rise two to six cents a pound. top eggs gain one to six cents per dozen. Officials warn egg prices may ease after Easter, while pork markets soften after heavy hog marketing. Tariff talks in Washington probe tomato imports from Mexico. Dun and Bradstreet price index sits at 5.79 for week, matching last year.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange
American Institute of Food Distribution
Washington
Tariff Commission
Austin Anson
Texas Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Shippers and Grove Association
Rio Grande Valley
Dun and Bradstreet
Laura Wheeler Needlecraft patterns for doilies and coats
Timeless beauty in a 38 inch knitted medallion and a No 30 cotton sherbet doily are shown as affordable knitted accessories. Pattern 572 includes chart directions and Laura Wheeler improved pattern offers concise guidance with photos. Send twenty cents for the pattern, plus fifteen cents for the Laura Wheeler book.
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Laura Wheeler
News Journal, Inc
Necnecraft Dept. P.O
Old
Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Italian Wineries Modernize to Meet California Challenge
In Asti Piemonte Italian wine makers boost output and exports as they adopt machinery across the industry. Vermouth production rises amid fears that California vermouth may displace European offerings in the U.S. Modernization includes glass tanks and mechanical bottling, while aging rooms still hold vast 125 year barrels.
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NEA
Asti
Italy
Astt
Piemonte
California
U S
Cali
Italian wine industry relies on ERP and Marshall Aid
The Italian wine sector shows strong export growth and domestic demand with 60 percent of wine consumed at home and 75 liters per person yearly. ERP aid is indirect, supplying sugar coal and materials via the Marshall Plan, aiding production at a 150 year old winery with 400 in payroll and about 32,000 bottles daily, 25,000 exported. The piece notes merchants seek dollars and US trade. The National Geographic Society cites evidence of Norse occupation in the Shetland Islands around AD 700.
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U. S
National Geographic Society
Shetland Islands
Queen Mary Delayed 40 Hours in Rough Atlantic Crossing
The Queen Mary arrived in New York 40 hours behind schedule after storms from England. Captain George E. Cove said speed was reduced from 28 to seven knots to weather the seas. No injuries or damage reported. Also crossing rough seas, the Atlantic docked a day late with passengers including Francis Cardinal Spellman.
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New York
England
George E. Cove
Queen Mary
U. S
United
Atlantic
Francis Cardinal Spellman
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