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...Most of its customers were being taken care of by trucks, buses and competing rail lines. But in Arkansas, 55 factories employing almost 3,500 persons were closed because of the MoPac shutdown; farmers in the Kansas City area reported heavy losses because of lack of transportation for their livestock. Confronted with the certainty of such distress, the MoPac strikers had refused to work through the National Railroad Adjustment Board, which is established by law for the settlement of just such matters...
Corn & Television. What hybrid corn did for the corn farmers, Schnering hopes to do for the dairymen, some of whom already think the plan "may be the biggest advance in the livestock industry in more than 100 years." Says Schnering: "Except for television, artificial breeding is the fastest growing business...
...Manpower Commission. His present job of keeping TIME'S editors up-to-date on Denver and the Rocky Mountain area is as varied as Beshoar's extensive (859,009 sq. mi.) territory. It requires a regional expert's knowledge of many fields : mining, livestock and oil, for instance, as well as local state politics. The Denver bureau's growing news file includes such stories as the Goethe Festival at Aspen, Colo. (TIME, July 11), the cow that Sot stuck in the silo (TIME, March...
...scrap his ambition. King Devil, a big red fox which haunted the countryside, had run his favorite hound to death. For years Nunn devoted himself to hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock and paid $70 for two pedigreed hounds, to raise them from pups with no purpose in life except to catch King Devil, he was ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were overwhelmed with pride and admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever...
...bags of potatoes and onions shipped by parcel post were gobbled up at the fancy price of 25? a pound. Rice, a staple of Hawaii's diet, was scarce. There was barely enough canned milk to feed the babies and scarcely enough feed to keep livestock and chickens alive. Mrs. Dorothy Lai had to close her little chop suey joint for lack of food, and with it went her life savings. Edmund Locke, whose small farm-equipment agency nearly went on the rocks during last year's I.L.W.U. West Coast strike, gave up this time...