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...Judge Metzger wanted the whole legal hog or none. He decided to make a test with an ancient civil weapon: the writ of habeas corpus. Two U.S. citizens of German ancestry had been held for months in an Army detention camp. Judge Metzger's writ ordered the Army to hand the prisoners over to the civil courts...
Hopes v. Facts. Admiral Vickery had history on his side. After World War I, the big U.S. fleet of mass-produced Hog Island freighters gathered rust and barnacles while other nations, with faster, better ships, took over the world's trade...
...still occasionally finds scissors, hatchets and axes under their beds "to cut the pains" (a superstition something like a horseshoe over the door). But his most vivid memory, which often returns to him strangely in the midst of a delivery, is "the smell and sound of an old hog scratching his back on the sills beneath the floor" during a birth...
...Government guarantee, which was designed to bring more corn to market, only 35,000,000 bu. (less than 2% of a normal year's crop) were shaken out of the growers' corncribs. This was to be expected; the Government had fixed it that way by promising hog prices that made corn-in-the-hog worth $1.35-1.40 a bu. v. $1.07 a bu. (ceiling price) as grain...
Meanwhile farmers were angry at the Government. They had reared large litters of hogs at Government urging and on a Government promise of a price of at least $13.75 Per 100 lb. Last week, to keep its promise, the Government finally forbade packers to buy at less than $13.75. This capped the comedy: the Government now really guarantees to maintain a corn-hog ratio that will make it uneconomical for corn to come to market...