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Meat packers found themselves jammed between the ceiling and the rising cost of meat on the hoof. A black market sprang up. The Government tried to fix that by giving the slaughterers' subsidies. Then it put a ceiling on livestock. Cattle raisers bemoaned high feed costs. So the Government gave them subsidies...
...Roman Catholic churches in Regina the Casti Connubü encyclical of Pope Pius XI was read: "Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects. . . ." Cried Social Credit League President Dr. Joshua N. Haldeman: "A beginning in reducing human beings to the category of livestock in a barnyard." Barrister Dorothy Greensmith saw a distressing vision: "Girls treated and released from institutions would become the prey of predatory human wolves...
...Bolsheviks gave them one based on the Russian alphabet, then introduced a proper selection of newspapers, magazines and books. The Tuvinians had lived mostly in bark tepees and felt yurts (tents); they followed their herds from pasture to pasture. The Bolsheviks collectivized the pastures, transformed the nomads into livestock farmers, built motor roads, distributed sewing machines, phonographs and radios, promoted cities like the Tuvinian capital, Kizilkhoto (I.e.,"Redtown,v pop. 10,000). The Bolsheviks put even Buddhist monks to work. They also introduced drugstores...
...Jewish organizations outside Poland are disturbed by reports that the survivors are still being harassed, that anti-Semitism is still rife. Some of the feeling is purely economic; that is, resentment at Jews returning from exile to claim houses, shops, land, livestock, tools. But most Jews in Poland have nothing left. It was reported, early this month, that an average of 200 Jews a day were slipping into the Anglo-U.S. zones in Austria. Many of them were young and relatively healthy, and some wanted to go to Palestine (see INTERNATIONAL) for a new start...
...July report indicated that the harvest of feed grains (corn, oats, grain sorghums) will be the smallest since 1941. The corn crop, feedbin for the livestock industry, was estimated at not quite 2.7 billion bushels-543 million bushels less than a year ago. For dairy farmers this may be made up, in part, by a near-record hay crop. Nevertheless, farmers look for a shortage of feed for their 715 million animals, fear next year's meat supply will be even less than...