Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortage is not due to price control but to an "Extraordinarily large slaughter" in July and August when price controls were temporarily...
...Paul Porter pleaded with Chicago packers to do something. But what could they do? They couldn't slaughter cattle that weren't there. Said Charles Bromann, executive secretary of the Associated Food Dealers, Inc. (2,000 Chicago butchers): "It's going to get worse...
...frustrate the line-holders in the past. Would they do it again? With a show of confidence, Boss Porter said no, declared that OPA now had 2,500 investigators, double the old staff, to nail the black marketers. He also had a big enforcement budget, a method of centralized slaughter control and a lot of hope. He would need it all to keep the black market out of the nation's butcher shops...
...Chiang Kai-shek's demand that the Communists "withdraw from areas where they threaten peace and obstruct communications," the Yenan Communist radio retorted: "What Chiang means, in a nutshell, is 'Countrymen, prepare for slaughter; it is all for your own good.'" The Communist answer: a "mobilization" call (for an army of 1,000,000 regulars, 2,000,000 guerrillas) and announcement of a "provisional supreme administration for democratic [Communist] Manchuria...
...discount to "Thunderbird College" was being studied by the House Surplus Property Committee. Said Chairman Roger C. Slaughter (D., Mo.): "This may be a perfectly legitimate enterprise, but it is worth looking into." Among Thunderbird's backers: five Phoenix and New York banks, several U.S. firms doing business in Latin America...