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...shelled corn to put 100 lbs. on a hog). When the price of corn is low in relation to that of hogs, it is more profitable to turn the corn into pork; that was the case through most of 1954, with the result that the 1954 fall pig crop was 16% bigger than in 1953, and the 1955 spring pig crop was 9% bigger than in 1954. To swell the hog population still further, free corn prices on the market have been considerably lower than the Government support price. A farmer eligible for corn support could thus sell...
Because of the prospect for more big pig crops, it looked as if Secretary Benson might be pressured by Congressmen into buying up pork. The program would be applied mainly at the processing level-a limited purchasing agreement aimed at cured shoulders, hams and bacon which the Agriculture Department could quickly dispose of through school lunch programs, hospitals and other charitable organizations...
Further expansion in most industries, said he, will push capacity beyond the goals set for defense needs. From now on, no more write-off certificates will be given for 26 types of expansion. Among them: aluminum plants, steel-ingot and pig-iron facilities, airports, diesel locomotives and ore carriers. But Flemming increased some other goals. Among them: commercial aircraft, research and development laboratories, copper plants...
Aircraft designers, forever increasing the capabilities of their planes, must constantly make expensive compromises to take care of the pilot. Until Medico Stapp came along with his cool scientist's insistence on using himself as guinea pig, fighter-planes were built to stand an expected stress of nine gs. It hardly seemed worth while to make them stronger. The human body, the engineers insisted (and most doctors believed), could not take greater physical strain. Not the machine but man himself appeared to be limiting man's conquest of the jet age. However the engineers tried, they could...
...fieldman for a biological supply company. ("I was always turning over rocks for scorpions, and the sight of a snake gladdened my heart.") More than once, Paul dined on pigeons caught on his boardinghouse roof, and when a course in histology required him to provide microscopic slides of guinea-pig tissue, he saw no reason to throw away the remains of the animals. He would cook and eat them. "If it breathed, it had protein, and if it had protein...