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Because U.S. and U.S.S.R. soils, climate, crops, livestock and even landscapes are much alike, scientists of both countries have been eager to exchange information. Last week at the Congress, Dr. Charles E. Kellogg, U.S. Soil Survey chief, declared: "The Russian and American peoples have a splendid record of mutual aid . . . since the American Revolution. . . . The future promises even more...
Poland, perhaps the most brutally treated of the overrun countries, first suffered confiscation of all state properties, all central stocks of textiles, food and livestock. Nine thousand factories and 60,000 commercial enterprises were taken over for exploitation by Germans. In 1942, 80% of the harvest was sent to Germany...
Governor Dwight P. Griswold of Nebraska, who had bravely wagered a hog with each of 27 other governors that Nebraska would outdo their states in the war-bond drive, was finally snatched off his hotspot by thoughtful friends. They bought 26 hogs at a livestock show, gave them to him. He may be ahead of the game. After shipping twelve hogs, he decided to postpone the rest of his pay-offs until the Treasury issued its final figures...
With steers beginning to jam stockyard pens and hogs flooding to market, the U.S. Government moved to put more meat on U.S. platters. It did this by lifting quotas on livestock slaughter so that the stockyard pens could be cleared. It also lowered ration points on many meat items...
...Soviet Economist Eugene Varga said that Russia would demand reparations from the Axis first, before they are paid to Britain and the U.S. Besides payments in money, goods, livestock and machinery, Professor Varga said that 10,000,000 skilled German workers would be required to repair Russia's property damage...