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Government farm-support programs have also hatched new troubles. When controls on acreage cut the incomes of cotton and tobacco farmers, they went into the egg business. In addition to encouraging this new competition, the Government farm program has forced egg raisers' feed costs sky-high through propping up the price of most grains. Although egg prices today average 25? a dozen on the farm, back to the level of 1941, Eastern eggmen today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls...
...summer and seek lumber-camp jobs the rest of the time. This year, when the big pulp and paper firms had no jobs at all to offer in the pineries, the ruling Agrarians complacently tried to hold the peat-bog farmers and other workers of the land with sky-high agricultural subsidies. The Communists, led by handsome Hertta Kuusinen,* shouted that the men of the forests wanted jobs, not fatter butter prices-and took five northern seats...
...toasted ants it is always a seller's market in Colombia. A favorite cocktail delicacy, and popularly reputed to give their eaters courage, they are so highly regarded that Colombians call them the "caviar of Santander." The only thing they dislike about the ants this season is the sky-high price of ten pesos ($1.34) per lb. (about 150 ants...
...years French governments fought jealously to keep Britain and the U.S. from "meddling" in France's North African sphere of interest. But the thesis that whatever happens in North Africa is purely a French concern was blown sky-high in the bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef (TIME, Feb. 17), and with the outraged Tunisians openly talking of war, even the French themselves could no longer maintain it. It was not over France's protest but at French invitation that the U.S. and Britain last week agreed to use their "good offices" toward settling the French quarrel with Tunisia...
...chiefly concerned with the Crop-leighs, who move through the wilderness like giants and mostly come to ends both brobdingnagian and foul. The first Cropleighs are blown sky-high in a steamboat explosion; of their four sons, Beverly and Duncan are blown earth-deep in a tunnel explosion (fratricide and suicide), Dickie loses a leg in the same disaster, and garrulous Jack is killed by a bullet aimed at still another Cropleigh. Daughter Julia causes much of the trouble by giving birth to a baby whose father might be her brother Duncan, her lover Pete Legrand, or even possibly...