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...Present livestock ceilings are "Fair and equitable...
Even if OPA's flurry of crackdown activity succeeded beyond its hopes, the results would be hardly noticeable on U.S. tables. The meat shortage was virtually a famine, and it would not soon get better. Shipments of livestock to slaughtering centers had dried up; many slaughterers closed up shop indefinitely, along with thousands of butchers. In a week in which it would normally purchase and process 9,000 cattle and 26,000 hogs, Armour & Co.'s main plant in Chicago took in only 68 cattle, 139 hogs...
Americans will soon have dirty faces and hands to go with their meatless tables. As the slaughtering of livestock declines, so falls the supply of tallow, a basic ingredient of soap. Last week Procter & Gamble, one of the world's largest soapmakers, predicted that the soap shortage in the U.S. will soon be worse than during...
...real power to rule what the OPA orders should be had been transferred to Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson. His farm-conscious decision: to encourage production, livestock prices would have to be higher than June 30 tops by $2.25 a hundred pounds for prime cattle, $1.40 for hogs, $2.85 for lambs...
...blurred, easy voice, Decontrol Board Chairman Roy Thompson let the big price secret out through the nation's radios. Livestock, meat, soybeans, cottonseed, flaxseed and their by-products would go back under controls on a date to be fixed by the OPA. Dairy products and most grains would not. "I expect," concluded Chairman Thompson, red-eyed from weariness, "that we are going to hear plenty of criticism...