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...stock market, which has been as unsteady as a hog on ice, last week again fell hard. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped five points to 270.73, a low point for the year. Down with it went the rail and utility averages. Investors sold not only because they were worried over economic adjustments which peace in Korea might bring; they also began to jitter-with little cause-that the vast outpourings of civilian goods would soon pile up big surpluses and bring cutbacks in production...
CLAUDE WICKARD resigned as Rural Electrification Administrator. A Hoosier hog farmer who went to Washington in 1933 to help man the old Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Wickard was one of the promoters of the early New Deal's pig-killing experiment, worked closely with Henry Wallace, rose to Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45). When Harry Truman chose Clinton P. Anderson as Secretary, Wickard was taken care of at REA. The law creating REA specifies that its administrator shall be appointed for ten years. With three years of his ten-year term still before him, Wickard at first resisted the request...
...work-an achievement which was crowned when he became a member of the Institute of Traffic Engineers. In a sense, Barnes was still an intern when he came to Denver. But he saw almost instantly that he had to do more than prescribe massive medication-he also had to hog-tie his patient and shove his pills down the municipal gullet...
...Britain's attitude: ¶ French businessmen signed an $11.2 million contract with Peking at the Moscow Economic Conference. The deal: French metals and chemicals for Chinese silk, tea and sausage casings. ¶ West Germans in 1951 swapped $4 million worth of chemicals and machinery for Chinese ores and hog bristles...
...Lisbon. He died there three months later, yet to the last, he kept his spirit calm and cheerful and never lost what Thackeray called his ''manly relish of life." His last letter home bears witness: "I must have from Fordhook likewise four hams, a very fine hog fatted as soon as may be and being cut into flitches sent me, likewise a young hog made into pork and salted and pickled in a tub. A vast large Cheshire cheese, and one of Stilton, it to be had good and mild . . . God bless you and yours...