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Even after last week's price break, steer prices in Chicago stayed above OPS ceilings. Normally heavy buyers rode around the cattle pens, casting covetous eyes at prize steers (see cut) but buying few. The only way packers can legally buy steers is by averaging down the high prices...
In the midst of a blizzard, trains and trucks rolled up to Chicago's stockyards last week, disgorging huge numbers of hogs and cattle. As the squealing, lowing animals were crowded into the cold and muddy pens, prices tumbled. Sales of steers were heavier than in any comparable week...
As for Red China's administrators being incorruptible-Communist papers are always decrying the inroad of corruption in the ranks of Red administrators . . . Tax collectors are constantly stealing grain from the taxes they collect. Judges have stolen the rings, watches, fountain pens and money of the prisoners they have...
Walkout in Reverse. On the appointed day, right on schedule, the spokesmen for 49 nations of the non-Communist world walked one by one to a bright yellow modernistic table on the stage and, using gold pens, put their signatures to the peace treaty. Last, clad in the only morning...
Long before the transports arrive, the frogmen mine the concrete and steel traps with lung-bursting patience, blast them out of the path of the assault troops. Donning rubber suits and shoulder-fitted oxygen tanks, they give the picture its most gripping sequence by slipping through the steel net of...