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World War I, the 20th Century's parent catastrophe, echoed faintly when Friedrich Wilhelm, the Hohenzollern crown prince of old Germany, and Henri Philippe Péetain, Marshal of France, died within four days. They had faced each other across the mass slaughter at Verdun; each, after his own fashion, had tried to make his deal with the mass brutality of Naziism that came after, and each died disgraced...
...week's end, many feeders who could hold their cattle off the market no longer began to ship again; receipts in the nation's stockyards climbed back almost to normal. The big meat packers were beginning to slaughter again, though still less than 50% of the normal rate. The big packers still could not get top-grade beef at low enough prices; instead, they were buying grass-fed animals straight from the ranges. Even with the gradual return to normality, the trouble was far from over; feeders were still not buying animals for fattening and sale...
...Great Britain, Belgium, Holland and Bolivia. After Korea, tin jumped from 78¾? a lb. to $1.82, forcing the RFC to step in and do all the buying for the U.S. Said RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington: "They murdered us on prices." To stop the slaughter, RFC went on a buyers' strike in March, and tin settled to about $1.50. Two weeks ago, Symington announced the U.S. would not pay more than $1.36 for tin, last week cut the price another 7? to $1.29. But price is not the whole problem. Even if every nation could afford...
...Putting China's Red masters well up in history's hierarchy of political purgers. Highest reliable estimates for Herod's slaughter of the Innocents, 20,000; Catherine de Medici's 16th Century massacre of the Huguenots, 50,000; France's 18th Century "terror," 30,000; Russia's Red Terror (1918-21), 50,000; Stalin's deliberate starving of Ukrainian peasants, 5,000,000, and Hitler's extermination of Germany's Jews (over twelve years...
...rookie manager Marty Marion has the same trouble as the Giants: only two regulars are hitting. Stan Musial and Red Schoendienst just have not been able to make up for the sudden failure of Country Slaughter, while first and catcher have not been strong spots in the batting order. And the older pitchers, Brecheen, Lanier, Wilks, Pollet, are over the hill...