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...University of Chicago philosopher, Professor Mortimer J. Adler -"the cultural center of the. West." To spread the tidings, persuasive Lynn Williams persuaded Chicago's Mayor Martin H. Kennelly to proclaim a Great Books Week. Kennelly agreed: "I think Chicago should be known as something besides the 'hog butcher for the world...
...lost to rats and rot. Lacking storage space, farmers often sell at panic prices. By renting space in the new company's elevators, farmers can hold off for better prices from middlemen, and Brazil will have to import less wheat. Another joint company has set up four model hog farms in São Paulo State, where farmers can get the word on scientific breeding and feeding. Local packers on the lookout for better meat have been persuaded to invest heavily in this outfit...
...most for their corn, many farmers were planning to increase hog feeding and buy cattle to fatten on corn. But the Bureau of Agricultural Economics did not think this would add to the meat supply-and bring prices down-until late 1949. In fact, said the bureau, meat would be even scarcer this winter, and prices might go even higher...
...campaign began in earnest last week at Illinois' sprawling state fair. There Republicans ate high off the hog, while Democrats got sow belly...
...Rocky Graziano, onetime Army deserter, middleweight champion and boxing's worst foot forward (he is barred in New York and in Illinois). The boys in the ringside seats noticed the pimples on his back and recalled stories that 26-year-old Rocky had been eating high off the hog since people began calling him "champ...