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...nuns alive. In fact last week largely was devoted to debunking Irun's more fantastic Red & White atrocity yarns. Meanwhile in nearby San Sebastian, next objective of a White Army under direct command of General Emilio Mola, there actually appeared a number of Spaniards who had not gone hog wild-Basques...
Since corn is the staple hog diet, "corn on the hoof" (i.e., hogs) last week rose too. Headlines read: RETURN OF THE $12 HOG. As corn passed wheat, it became too dear to feed hogs, whose diet was thereupon switched to wheat, which is a better meat-builder, anyway...
...frankly goes the whole hog in meeting foreign ship subsidies by committing the Government to creating a Merchant Marine owned and operated by U. S. citizens, composed of U. S.-built vessels, sufficient to carry U. S. trade and capable of serving as a naval auxiliary in war time...
Sirs: TIME exaggerates the digestive ability of hogs. On April 6 you state that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." This idea was rooted in a statement in my Next Hundred Years- ''Hogs eat coal and enjoy it" (TIME, June 1). Hogs undoubtedly eat coal. Many a mid-western porker sees the black lumps of bituminous coal constantly before him supplied by his indulgent master. If munching effectively and with gusto is a mark of enjoyment, then the pigs actually enjoy this unusual foodstuff, apparently considerably more than the average American enjoys his daily slabs...
...zebra, ready to give chase and cut down a straggler. There is a group of five lions, including a superb black-maned male. Four giant sable antelopes are resting in a copse of acacia trees. A pair of Bongo antelopes are pushing into a bamboo jungle, disturbing a forest hog which heaves up from its bed among ferns and orchids...