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...rationing is an ex post facto job, and one of Jimmy Byrnes's problems is to cure causes of limited production: Farmers are skimping on expensive protein feeds that a cow needs for top yields. Machinery is rationed or nonexistent. Farm wages are too high for many an operator to pay. Laborers are abandoning the seven-day-week grind of cow-tending for easier, better-paid city work. Thus big & little farmers are selling herds: the culls for slaughter, the good cows mostly to neighbors; heifers-next year's cows-are being sold for beef at fantastic prices...
...Christian Revolutionist York attacked even this sacred cow. In the Church as it is today, said he, "the whole setup of administrative and financial reforms is overdue; the incomes of bishops, especially archbishops, apparently are very high. So long as bishops are looked on as rich men, their spiritual influence will be hindered. Both the Archbishop of Canterbury and I* are most anxious that as soon as possible this cause of offense should be removed...
...involves energy-consuming gestatory processes which slow milk production and may be undesirable in wartime. Dr. Folley causes virgin goats to develop udders and commence giving milk by treating them with the synthetic hormones diethylstilbestrol and hexestrol. By similar synthetic-hormone magic the quality of milk given by a cow can be controlled to some extent...
...Cow Cow Boogie (Freddie Slack and his Orchestra; Capitol). Blues prairily twanged by Vocalist Ella May Morse...
...most gallerygoers the art of Marc Chagall has always been a good deal of a riddle. The puzzle began when Painter Chagall rushed from St. Petersburg to Paris with a canvas showing a decapitated milkmaid floating in an emetic sky while a pink cow was suckled by a pair of pea-green apes on a Russian rooftop. Paris was baffled. Even the Left Bank was slow to understand that Painter Chagall's graphic defiance of the laws of physics and biology was the work of a deeply religious, idealistic young Jew who was merely recreating from his imagination...