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...Pork on the hoof hit a 22-year high of $15.30 cwt. last week despite retail price-fixing. At $15.30, economists figured that scientific feeding of 85? corn in the trough brought over $2.50 a bu. gross when resold in the hog...
...crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling of a cat, "and what would grace the concert yet more, would be the rubbing of a wet finger upon the window glass...
...afternoon one can drive along the road and see hundreds of men-whites here, blacks there- standing under a shower, washing off a half-inch accumulation of the day's grime. Soldiers love to pick quaint names for their camps: Virgin Lane, Luna(tic) Park, Scroungers' Rest, Hog Willow, and One Hundred Twenty-fifth Street...
...beef or pork for everybody-for the Government is buying 30% of the kill for Lend-Lease and the Army, and the new rich are buying meat as never before. The shortage struck first in cities where the ceiling prices were lowest: the packers, squeezed between ceilings and rising hog and steer prices, naturally preferred to sell where the squeeze hurt least...
...production planners and the Army went hog-wild on new construction both before and after Pearl Harbor: this year's building program amounts to over $14,000,000,000 and 11,000,000 tons of steel (half of it for Army camps and bases); it is eating up 12% of the U.S.'s steel-plate capacity, 36% of its structural steel shapes. But while almost every other kind of productive capacity in the U.S. was ballooning, steel capacity was increased a bare...