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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maternity Ward. There begin long, sleepless nights during which Gus Kuester may pace the center aisle of the farrowing barn like an expectant father. Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer...
...grow all they needed. But the war and natural disasters sent import needs skyrocketing. Europe, which imported less than 4,000,000 tons of wheat a year before the war, needed 15,400,000 tons this crop year from the 1945 harvest to the 1946. Asia and Africa, which normally imported only 2,400,000 tons, have needed almost 11,000,000 tons. All in all, needy countries came begging for 32,000,000 tons of wheat this year instead of the normal 13,000,000 tons of imports. The surplus countries (mainly the U.S. and Canada) may be able...
...Venice decreed that all vessels coming from infected ports be detained incommunicado in the harbor for 40 days. Normal U.S. quarantine time: up to 14 days...
Granted that expenses of service and upkeep are higher now than before the war, the fact remains that the University for the next few years will be operating far above normal capacity. Not only will every room be occupied but present plans call for an extra man being quartered in every room in which it is possible. This increased number of men per room will add substantially to the University's rental income even if the basic rent level remained unchanged. This is to say nothing of the fact that the University will be receiving rent for three terms...
...Spring in China," cabled TIME Correspondent William Gray, "is marked again by the normal abnormalcy of civil war-this time abnormally serious. There is probably even less cause for optimism now than last fall. By every means Nationalists and Communists are trying to improve their position with all haste before Referee Marshall returns...