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...Guinea Pig. Henry Ford II called the proposal "a disastrous precedent for scuttling . . . the law." He would not become "a guinea pig . . . for all industry." Ford's negotiators would agree to setting up an impartial umpire who would determine whether the union had made "prompt and honest" efforts to prevent illegal walkouts; Ford would not sue if the umpire said they had made the efforts. No, said U.A.W. to that...
Still to be heard from were bellwethers Bethlehem and U.S. Steel. But they were getting that old price-raising feeling, too. Both companies raised pig-iron prices $3 a ton. Big Steel brushed off the raise as a bookkeeping device. It uses almost all its pig-iron output itself. But the raise was a plain sign of the way both companies were thinking. With the ice broken by smaller companies-and the pattern already set-both were expected to increase steel prices also, thus assuring a general rise in the industry...
...Pig for Ourselves. At the collective farm of Lenino, 26 miles northwest of Moscow, more than half of the population (200) were killed. Every house was ruined. Of 38 horses, three were saved. Lenino's 70 cows were evacuated to the Urals; there are only 15 now. The collective barn was the first building to be restored. Next to the barn was a steaming manure pile and a thickly thatched vegetable cellar with Lenino's treasure-40 tons of seed potatoes. But Lenino would see little of the profits. While I was in Moscow, the Soviet state...
Straight into the heart of the mystery plunged the newshawk. He telephoned James McNally, the best-known pig and cattle dealer in the border counties. "Certainly," said James, making a clean breast of the business, "I ran the advertisement. The cats are for veterinary research schools in London. But I get only strays. Sure, I know most of the cats in the district, and as for their being only ten left, that's nonsense. Why," he added indignantly, "I met seven in the main street only this morning and every one looked as happy as larry...
...meat-packing industry brags that it uses all of a pig but the squeal. The lumber industry is different. It is so wasteful that a conservationist once growled: "They use the squeal and throw away the pig." No more than a third of a felled tree becomes lumber. The rest is left in the forest or is wasted at the sawmills...