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...clothing as the soaring cost of food. Headlines proclaimed the farmer's joy that hogs, cattle, butter, eggs were at the highest levels in four and five years. Actually the farmer was not benefiting to any large extent because last summer's Drought had either depleted his livestock or boosted the cost of his feed. Nevertheless, U. S. housewives were mad clear through, and AAA officials even admitted that any further rise in food prices might have a serious political reaction on their plans for crop control...
Useful to farmers as a cheap feed for livestock are shorts, a mixture of bran and other coarse material left when flour is milled from wheat. When corn is dear, many a Southerner ferments shorts with sugar to make "corn liquor." Last week Senator Arthur Capper complained that one of his constituents in Kansas went to a local AAA office, asked for shorts for his hogs. Instead of giving help and sympathy, the young college woman whom AAA had put in charge replied to him: "Oh yeah? What about some step-ins for your cows while...
...mistake, eased his pressure. Today, because pigs multiply faster than cattle, Soviet collectives are frantically breeding swine. Last week President Kalinin's nearest approach to admitting Dictator Stalin's mistake came when he observed: "The heavy bread consumption we are now experiencing indicates weakness in our livestock raising. However, pigs take the place of bread very well...
...included in the crop estimates were livestock products with a 1934 value of about $1,400,000,000 or poultry & dairy products with a value of about $2,300,000,000. Nor did the report include AAA cash benefits which this year will foot...
...fell on her during a hunt; in Washington. An intensely energetic organizer, she was a founder of such diverse bodies as the Junior League (with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt). Manhattan's swank Colony Club, the Community Councils for National Defense (later to become the charitarian Community Councils), the Eastern Livestock Co-operative Marketing Association. In 1910 she married polo-playing Sculptor Charles Carey Rumsey, who was killed twelve years later in an automobile accident. An early & generous supporter of Roosevelt, she became, with her good friend Frances Perkins, one of the important women in his New Deal...