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Cattlemen, crowded into Denver for the 1945 National Western Livestock Show, saw nothing at all unusual in this procedure. Both bulls were white-faced Herefords, the predominant Western beef strain and the pride of Western stockmen. In bringing $50,000-the highest price ever paid for a U.S. beef animal-the T.T.s Triumphant and Regent had hung up a mark for stockmen to shoot...
...both cases the producers were unsatisfied. To the average citizen the cattle ceiling seemed like a sensible move. It was set high enough to give the cattlemen room to turn a profit, yet it still blocked runaway prices. But the cattlemen, unalterably opposed to livestock ceilings of any kind, argued that since the spread between livestock prices and retail beef prices remained unchanged, black markets would continue to flourish, and thus consumers would benefit little from the price control. Likewise the steelmen, who had hoped for more, cried that higher prices were long overdue on other types of steel products...
Inducements to move include forgiveness of all forms of debt and insurance payments, remission of taxes for two years, granting of five-year loans of 5,000 zloties or rubles (about $1,000). Expatriates may take along their livestock and two tons of goods per family. They will be compensated for property left behind. Peasants who donate their crops to the state will be compensated. On paper the plan looked good. But it would have to be carried out amid mounting tensions...
...Livestock won. A Government order barred export of feed-grade barley, put much of Canada's barley in that class by forbidding farmers to clean a lush wild-oats crop out of the grain. The ruling deprived U.S. brewers of a large part of their No. 2 source of barley, Canadian prairie farmers of the tidy premium they get for sales to U.S. brewers...
Horse Meat Helps. Almost half of France's newborn babies were underweight, and the child death rate had increased by 25%. Tuberculosis deaths were up 51%. The Germans had drained off dairy products, livestock (a quarter of France's cattle, a third of her draft animals), huge quantities of wine (for the Wehrmacht: 60,000 bottles of champagne daily-though the Germans, who did not know enough to specify the vintage years, did not get the best). Last week in towns where retreating Germans left dead horses on the street, the inhabitants eagerly butchered the carcasses...