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Average retail price of beef is 17% above a year ago; pork chops 34%; lard 70%; poultry 16%; eggs 23%; canned peas 22%. Hotels and restaurants reported butchers' bills up 37%. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food index covering 31 different items has climbed 7% since the year end, now standing 30% above February 1934, 83% above February 1933. Only a few staples like potatoes, cabbages, onions, bananas are selling lower than a year...
...seeds and linseeds, in which the company was also short, had fluctuated violently. Soon the company found itself being slowly squeezed to death by a world-wide shortage of oils and fats which was aggravated when cottonseed oil output in the U. S. was cut by cotton acreage reduction, lard output by the corn-hog program, beef tallow by the Drought...
...characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when we have a superfluity of good things the whole world will kowtow to Russia as to a rich uncle...
...Swift it was better than the year before and only a few million short of the company's 1926 high of $15,000,000. During the first ten months, said President Gustavus Franklin Swift, U. S. meat-eaters had consumed nearly three pounds more meat and lard than the year before. The forced marketing of drought-stricken animals had led the company at times to operate "at a rate far beyond what it had always regarded as peak capacity...
Corn into Meat. Most U. S. corn is fed to hogs, steers, chickens. Thus when corn soars so does pork, lard, eggs, beef. Fat corn-fed steers have risen in the past fortnight from a $8.50 per cwt. to $9.50. Top price for hogs last week was $5.60, best level in three years. Meanwhile, however, the stock yards have been overrun with gaunt, stumbling beasts which stricken farmers can no longer feed, and this is why the price of ordinary meat-on-the-hoof has gained little. Government purchases of relief cattle may run as high...