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...Hog production in the Midwest is 30 to 40% less than a year ago, despite a bumper crop of feed corn. The reason: the price of corn is fixed too high in relation to the fixed price of hogs...
What made the board flip-flop was Detroit's pugnacious young Foremen's Association of America, an independent union. To enforce its bargaining demands, it had called a series of strikes in Detroit's war plants (TIME, May 15-22), hog-tied war production. By giving in, NLRB hopefully expects to avoid further "industrial strife." But the dissenting board member, Gerard D. Reilly, snapped that the ruling smacks of a "peace-at-any-price" policy...
...true to Pat. We haven't got the full details, but the absence of Rolain's name in the rag every week doesn't mean we aren't evening him with suspicion. His fans may be interested to know that Bruno "the Bruiser" Tiz has taken a fancy to hog calling in hopes of getting a date for the coming Senior Dance. Such resource fulness shall not go unrewarded...
Season's Greetings. In Kansas City, J. C. Huddle, an airways forecaster for the local weather bureau, went hunting, shot a ground hog...
...Army's Hammond General Hospital in Modesto, Calif., where ulcer cases are common, he has tried out his ideas on 31 patients who were making no progress on conservative ulcer diets. He gave them additional eggs, olive oil, fresh greens, peanut butter, pills of hog stomach and grass-enough to bring daily diets up to a whopping 4,200 calories. The results, as announced in last week's Military Surgeon: pains of 25 patients stopped in about a week; 17 patients gained an average ten pounds; 22 of the patients recovered completely...