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...crux of Alsop's proposition for world peace was power politics. "We have power, economic and technological strength more gigantic than our eastern adversary," he claimed, and advocated hog-tying Russia's expansion policy by securing the friendship and economic control of her neighbors by means of the Marshall Plan...
This week, the cap started coming off the biggest item in the average family's budget: food (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the livestock market, hog prices this week dropped $2 to $22.50 a hundredweight, lowest in a year. Consumers waited for cheaper pork. The sympathetic break in hides, fats and oils, and cotton suggested possible future reductions in the prices of shirts, shoes and soap...
This week, the cold eased its grip in some places. But amateur weather prophets, amid much labored clowning, generally agreed that ground hogs saw their shadows on Ground-Hog Day (Feb. 2)-and that meant six more weeks of winter...
...more than in 1946. Financially the farmers, after four prosperous years of war and two of peace, were better off at 1947's end than they had ever been before. Yet they were less than satisfied. One midwesterner (with possible exaggeration) wrathfully wrote his Congressman: "For one fat hog we can get a carpenter for two days. For one 14-month-old steer, at 25? a pound, we can get ten pieces of 1 x 2 inch board, 10 feet long, second quality." Though farmers complained of a squeeze by labor and industry, their prices had risen more than...
Right Bower. As Ed's successor, the convention picked shaggy-browed Allan Kline, 52, of Iowa, who has long been Ed's right bower and the Farm Bureau's vice president for two years. An enthusiastic student of philosophy, economics and history, Kline is a hog farmer with a distaste for colloquialisms. He has a town house in Des Moines and a farm in Benton County which boasts a swimming pool, tennis court, and gaited horses. He is an independent Republican. Deliberate and shrewd, Kline believes in a relatively low level of parity and a thriving foreign...