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Many a U.S. grocer and butcher, hog-tied by rationing red tape, sadly watched last week while good meat, butter and other foods spoiled in his store. This week the National Association of Retail Grocers sent a sense-making proposal...
...Chester Davis' new job as the nation's food czar, Brother Lewis Igo Davis happily murmured: "I'm glad it's his headache and not mine." Happy Brother Lewis is a Los Angeles butcher...
With barely a glance at the weekend customers milling about the corner butcher shop, Mrs. Stanley Coultas walked into the Halliburton Cold Storage Locker Plant in Des Moines, opened her personal food locker, took out a chunk of mutton, a package of green beans. That was all she needed : her husband is in the Army, she lives alone. But against the day when her soldier comes home on furlough the 350-lb. locker is packed with good things to eat - parts of two sheep, big pieces of beef and pork, five fat chickens, some wall-eyed pike, a panful...
...down the U.S., butchers faced the same problem. Steaks, roasts, chops, all highpoint meats, were a drug on the market. Many a butcher took advantage of OPA's concession that point values may be cut if stocks are in danger of spoiling. Too many butchers took advantage: OPA debated canceling its rule and letting the honest dealer's meat spoil-steaks, chops, liverwurst...
...these marches they wade creeks, slosh through mires, sleep wet and muddy on open ground without bedroll or tent. They live off the country, learn how to kill a sheep by cracking its neck with a quick twist (so that its bleat will not betray them), how to butcher it and start cooking within seven minutes...