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...Richard Reusch is a short, slight (5 ft. 2 in., 110 Ib.) Lutheran missionary of 58 who chose to work among one of the fiercest tribes in Africa-the blood-drinking, spear-wielding Masai. Going back to Tanganyika from his last furlough in the U.S., he had two practical gifts: a tractor presented to him by St. Paul's Church in St. Paul, Minn, and "a splendid shotgun" given by the First Lutheran Church in Worthington, Minn. He has used the first to grow corn, beans and tobacco, the second to shoot "three lions and many hyenas." His days...
...other prices continued to edge up, Iowa's white-haired Democratic Senator Guy Gillette and his Agriculture subcommittee decided to investigate. It called leading U.S. packers and retailers to Washington last week to find out why the price of sirloin steak in July had risen from 88? a Ib. to $1.10, then dropped to 98?, then bounded up close to $1.10 again. During all this time, the price of beef on the hoof was virtually unchanged. The explanation, as everyone expected, was simple. The packers and retailers had jacked up prices when the Korean war touched off a burst...
Other industries were equally jittery last week. Charles A. Cannon, president of the huge Cannon Mills, biggest U.S. towel-maker, called for voluntary price ceilings on cotton goods. This year's short cotton crop (an estimated 38% below 1949) has boosted raw cotton futures to 40.25? a Ib., highest in 30 years. Cannon feared that if cotton cloth prices followed suit, consumers would demand Government controls...
...crop was short because floods during the last three months had drowned some 4,000,000 sheep, disrupted transport of the clip to the market. When Auctioneer J. L. Brassil asked for bids on a lot of grease wool (i.e., raw wool) that would have brought 91? a Ib. only two months ago, a Frenchman quickly offered $1.12, lost out to a Briton who got it for $1.32. Said Auctioneer Brassil: "Never did I dream of such prices . . ." The average: 94?, v. 60? last season...
...pinch of war. The Commerce Department, acting on a plan suggested by the rubber industry, ordered the use of rubber for civilian products cut to 90,000 tons a month for the rest of the year-about 13% below July's consumption. Since natural rubber (at 51? a Ib.) is almost three times as expensive as synthetic, manufacturers are expected to cut down chiefly on natural, thus leave more for the national stockpile. Rubbermen said that consumers would hardly notice...