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...wart hog principle. One wart hog probably looks just dandy to another. See BOOKS, Clothes Make Mankind...
...winter's first freezing storms blew eastward last week down the Rocky Mountain slopes, whipped snow flurries across the Great Plains wheatlands, swirled into the Midwest's corn-hog belt. Farmers, their 1959 row crops in, and a little leisure time at hand, began to talk among themselves, on street corners, in grange halls, in bunking rooms, in the circles around the stockyard stoves. As always, the talk was about how hard it is to make a dollar. But this year the talk had the extra heat and urgency that come with falling farm prices. Farm-belt politicians...
...overall measure of farmer unrest was totted up in dollars and cents last week by the U.S. Agriculture Department: primarily because of a drop in hog and chicken prices, total farm income fell much faster in 1959 than predicted only a month ago, will fall 15% below 1958 to about $11.2 billion, and will probably slide another 7% or more...
...There is plenty of room," says Sabbá, and more men are moving into it. Belém-born Isaac Benzecry is processing alligator hides, distilling rosewood (for oils used in cosmetics), curing furs (ocelot, jaguar, otter) and skins (water hog, wild boar, deer). Onetime Belém Fruit Peddler and Cabbie Manuel Pinto Silva now turns out building tiles, cement and lumber, is putting the finishing touches on the Amazon's first skyscraper in downtown Belém. Ukraine-born U.S. Citizen Maurice Kleinberg started Belém's first deep-sea fishing fleet...
...HOG PRICES will cut retail pork prices for the rest...