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...farmer gets for that meat is 14?." Their anger touched one of the most sensitive nerves in U.S. politics. In Washington a congressional committee responded by proposing price supports for cattle while the Department of Agriculture is already investigating the spread between the price of beef on the hoof and on the butcher's meathook...
...chief reason meat prices are so high is the heavy cost of bringing meat to market. Actually, the price of a steer on the hoof is only a small factor in what the housewife pays for beef. The total cost includes such expenses as freight (up 75% since the war) and labor (up about 100%). Since these costs are fixed, a temporary drop in cattle prices may mean only a small reduction at retail...
...Belmont Park, prepping for the Sysonby Mile and "the race of the century" against Tom Fool, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer, still limping after an operation for an injured hoof, was withdrawn from all races until it heals. Possible rendezvous for the Dancer and Tom Fool: the Pimlico Special in late October...
...tolled 11, the hoof beats ceased. Four hundred boys' voices soared into the great crescendo of Sir Hubert Parry's anthem: "I was glad when they said unto me, We will go into the House of the Lord...
...pitiful handful of his old friends battled the policemen, and 16 men were killed in the brutal little fray. As rifles barked, an old, grey circus horse that belonged to Sitting Bull pirouetted, postured and then sat down gravely near the chief's cabin and raised one hoof, apparently under the impression that it was back under the big top. After these Chekhovian obsequies. Sitting Bull's body was carted to Fort Yates, N.Dak...