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...Home. In Waukesha, Wis., a judge awarded Mrs. Dolores Garvey a divorce after she testified that her husband let his dog track mud through her kitchen. In Cincinnati, Elmo Skinner's petition for a divorce complained that his wife was in Loglick, Ky., where "she has acquired a hog and 40 chickens. The world food situation being what it is, she prefers to remain ... in preference to returning to ... the potluck which city life offers." In Los Angeles, John Wilson, who said his wife walked out on him two hours after the wedding, finally got around to suing...
Publisher Elzey Roberts decided that they were-though some other parties were also guilty. In an editorial he said: "It is time that society as a whole faced the fact that through its negligence and apathy this postwar period has become a hog-wallow of eroticism." He felt that the mud in this wallow was contributed by some movies, fashion designers, plays, radio programs, books, perfume ads and "unwholesome comic strips with provocative poses." He left it to his readers to tell him what should be done...
...Forest City, Iowa, Furniture Dealer John Hanson dramatized the U.S. farmer's prosperity in a new way. He scrubbed the dollar signs off his price tags, substituted a figure in hog-pounds. When one of his customers came in with a load of fourteen 220-lb. hogs, Dealer Hanson did a little quick figuring. At 1941 prices, he pointed out, the hogs would have bought one 9-cu. ft. refrigerator. Last week the customer got not only the refrigerator, but an electric range, an automatic toaster-and $20 in change...
Most of the merchant ships knocked together during the war (e.g., Liberty ships) are uneconomical, so the committee asked for the construction of a new fleet of highspeed dry cargo and tanker vessels. But it sensibly warned the U.S. against trying to hog world shipping. Said the committee: "Many maritime nations are far more dependent [for income] on shipping than is the United States. . . . Any attempt on the part of the United States to monopolize a large part of world shipping . . . could constitute a threat to world peace," by further impoverishing some nations and drying up world trade...
...million bushels, 100 million more than it could readily get. As the Government bought on the open market, prices rose. Many livestock raisers, rather than pay such high prices for feed, sent their animals to market and cashed in on high meat prices. Thus at twelve leading Western markets, hog receipts one day last week totaled 114,800, as compared with 67,987 on the same date a year...