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Root of the corn-pig crisis is the price ceiling on corn ($1 a bushel) and the price floor on hogs ($13.75 a 100 lb.). By feeding the corn to the hogs, farmers figure they can get the equivalent of $1.35 a bushel for their corn. Last week corn bootleggers roamed the Midwest, buying up corn at above-ceiling prices to sell to hog raisers...
...report of his Emergency Food Commission. Gist of the report: the nation must shift from a meat to a grain diet, must stretch its grain crops to the last ounce by feeding them directly to people instead of to livestock to be converted to meat. (The average hog takes seven pounds of corn to produce one pound of table pork...
From the New York State College of Agriculture came a 32-page pamphlet of recipes and menus, prodigal with suggestions. The list of edible weeds was enthusiastically expanded: milkweed, stinging nettle, amaranth pigweed, sow thistle, skunk cabbage ("cooking reduces offen-siveness"), toothwort, hog peanut, yellow goatsbeard, spatterdock...
...Dealers who demanded billions of dollars for the war effort when the services couldn't see how they could use millions. Profiting by the lessons of the war, he was one who fought vigorously to expand the nation's raw material supply when the services went hog-wild in building plants to produce munitions for which they couldn't get the raw materials. The services had overruled Nathan and the men who stood with him. They had had their way with each successive, fumbling war board, right down to the weak War Production Board...
...National Defense Minister James Layton Ralston is a Baptist, a great Canadian, a hog for detail...