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...light bulbs and calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend $55,000,000 buying up 5,000,000 hogs (4,000,000 young animals, 1,000,000 sows about to litter.) The 5,000,000 hogs will be used to feed the unemployed...
Because sows will farrow, because piglets will grow up into fat hogs regardless of Government decrees, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has been hard put to devise a means of reducing the swine surplus comparable to the plow-under of cotton. Last week A. A. A. accepted in principle a price-upping plan from the National Corn-Hog Producers Committee of 25 which had been grappling with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that...
Packers were to sell their emergency hog purchases as pork to relief agencies at a nominal sum, as fat to soap manufacturers, as tankage to fertilizer dealers. The A. A. A. was to reimburse them for the bounties they paid out to hog raisers. The scheme would cost the Government up to $65,000,000. That sum would be derived from applying a regular processing tax to ali pork products which packers could pass on to consumers of ham, bacon, sausage, chops, lard...
Winner of the hog-calling championship at an Arkansas county fair was Harvey Crowley Couch, R. F. C. board member. Asked how he won the medal, he said: "The 'sooey' system. I used to 'sooey' home the hogs on my father's farm when I was a boy. There's a knack to the 'sooey' of course, and the 'cooey' and these newfangled calls can't approach it, once you've got it down...
...hog-tie Zog and make Albania an Italian protectorate was in 1927 the ambition of Benito Mussolini. Zog in those days was President of Albania. He was presently hog-tied with a crown. Albania under King Zog settled down to pleasant wildcat treasury squandering, made possible by yearly Italian loans which, conveniently, bore no interest...