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...little while-as the big businessman blabbers influentially in the press club and blubbers helplessly under the withering word-fire of an intelligence officer (Gregory Peck) who dares to use his intelligence-the picture is strongly reminiscent of a leftish political cartoon from the '30s in which a hog in striped pants is served up with an apple in his mouth...
...Hog 'n Hominy." Across the state to the west, in land long known as "hog 'n hominy country," Chemstrand's $85 million nylon plant at Pensacola was in commercial production, would soon be turning out 50 million Ibs. of yarn a year. Eight pulp and paper plants were producing at the rate of $230 million a year, having boosted capacity 50% in the past two years alone. Soon to go into production: an $18 million cellulose plant owned by Procter & Gamble...
...similar program, sponsored by Aiken, was passed by the 80th Congress in 1948, but has not come into operation.) In the farm belt, the president of the country's largest farm organization voiced his approval. Said Iowa Hog Farmer Allan Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation: "The program is forward looking, with principles essentially sound for the long-range welfare of American agriculture." But the plan ran head-on into formidable opposition on Capitol Hill. Some longtime students of the farm problem, e.g., Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell, argued with details of the program...
...lower center is a bloated, hog-faced cherub swilling strong drink (explains Grosz: "I come from a drinking family"). At his left, a fat-buttocked nude is grasped by a hand that protrudes from no body; below lies a soft, naked torso and legs, which Grosz says represents the memory of his mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World...
TURNABOUT in farm prices in December (up 1.2% after a four-month drop) was due largely to unseasonally high hog prices. Normally, hog prices fall in December, the month of heaviest marketing, but this year hogs went to market earlier, keeping December shipments down and prices up. Market will probably stay firm until farmers bring in their big new hog crop next fall...