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...license. We are not free to take an editorial stand as a newspaper is. If all of you were anti-McCarthy tonight, we'd have to give him this time next week to hit back. Of course we wouldn't want to do that so we better steer clear of the question. But go on, what else have you got? Talk about anything you like...
Even after last week's price break, steer prices in Chicago stayed above OPS ceilings. Normally heavy buyers rode around the cattle pens, casting covetous eyes at prize steers (see cut) but buying few. The only way packers can legally buy steers is by averaging down the high prices with cheaper animals such as cows. Cows now account for 50% of the packers' kill, v. 25% in normal times. Even so, slaughtering has been running some 20% below last year, because there are not enough cheap animals to balance the high-priced steers. Result: the big packers...
Under OPS's complicated cutting regulations, cheating is made easy. The rib and the short plate of a steer, for example, are contiguous parts of the animal. But under OPS ceilings, prime rib wholesales for more than double the price of short plate. Thus, butchers who want to cheat merely cut the rib big, the plate small. Another dodge: meat packers are allowed a certain shrinkage in cooling their meat, but it is a simple matter to claim more shrinkage than actually occurs. It is just as simple to rejuggle the books to bring purchase prices down with little...
...Iran's all but unguarded northeastern border. Their mission: to stir up riots and mastermind the revolution when Iran is judged ripe to be taken over. Of the same stock and tongue as northern Iranians, the agents from Russian Turkistan are well-trained and well-heeled. The agents steer clear of the big Russian embassy on Churchill Avenue, and get their orders from the Rumanian legation...
...Bevis. While President Bevis soothingly tried to explain that the new decree was simply aimed at out & out Communist propagandists, the faculty and most of the student body protested that the trustees had clamped on a gag rule that would make any speaker worth his salt or his honorarium steer clear of the Ohio campus...