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...quart, consumption had dropped and worried dairy farmers asked the Department of Agriculture to cut farm milk prices. The farm equipment industry, which will do a record $2 billion business this year, was finally catching up with its huge backlog of orders. Small tractors, once scarcer than autos, could now be bought off dealers' floors...
...their corn, many farmers were planning to increase hog feeding and buy cattle to fatten on corn. But the Bureau of Agricultural Economics did not think this would add to the meat supply-and bring prices down-until late 1949. In fact, said the bureau, meat would be even scarcer this winter, and prices might go even higher...
...Very Worried." But the real battle was still the battle for the roads. For the Jews in Jerusalem, it was a matter of survival. Each day food grew scarcer, bread lines longer. Those most immediately threatened by the Arab stranglehold were 1,500 Orthodox Jews living in the Old City, surrounded by blockading Arabs. What food they got was coming through in British convoys...
...true. Most of the 600-odd manufacturers who attended held out for price increases ranging from 10% to 15%. As a result, purchases by some 12,000 buyers were considerably smaller in physical volume, though not in dollar value. This meant that shoes this winter and spring would be scarcer and higher...
Jaakko (pronounced Yahko) reached America in 1921, armed with a degree in mechanical engineering and a reputation for having done wonders with the 1920 Finnish Olympic track team. While he searched for a job, American track connoisseurs came to the conclusion that coaches of his ability were considerably scarcer than mechanical engineers...