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Wrote Ruiz: "We were handicapped by a lack of tools, emery, grease, packing, nuts & bolts. We did not have an ax with which to chop wood for our smokehouse...
Saga of the Pork Chop. Early in the war, when Government agencies asked the farmers to raise more hogs, they were promised a reasonable profit. To make sure they got it, OPA clamped a ceiling on the price of corn (averaging $1.07) and WFA put a floor price of $13.75 cwt. under the hog market...
...Germans used the flood shrewdly, shifting their forces northward to meet the heavily mounted drive of General Henry D. G. Crerar's First Canadian Army as it swung southward from captured Cleve to chop out a protective flank for a Ruhr-aimed offensive by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's big British Second Army...
Mungs are legumes that came originally from China. For more than 100 years a few U.S. farmers have raised mungs in small quantities for fodder, but had found little market for them as a cash crop. But when imports of mungs from China were blockaded, owners of chop-suey joints from coast to coast and as far west as Honolulu flashed an S O S. The sprouts of U.S. mungs were needed for Times Square's most popular dish...
...Congress. Last week Jesse's friends rallied round: businessmen befriended by RFC, fellow Southern Conservatives Kenneth McKellar, Walter George, and even old Cordell Hull, who was not too ill for a little political maneuvering. The President got word that it would not be "practical" politics to chop off Jesse's white-thatched head...