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...last week they had recorded 60 suspected cases (though some could prove to be viral pneumonia). The farms turned up only seven cases of apparent ornithosis. The situation was worse at a rendering plant, where turkeys that had died of disease were shipped to be boiled down for tallow, feed and fertilizer. At this plant, out of 32 employees, 24 became ill, a dozen hospitalized. At other plants there were 29 cases. Two died, but State Epidemiologist Samuel B. Osgood would only say that ornithosis was "a factor" in their deaths...
...bare profit figures do not tell the whole story because the packer does not get his entire profit from meat sales. A large part of it comes from byproducts, e.g., hides and tallow. This permits the packer to live off a very low markup, or none at all, on the meat itself; e.g., in 1951, packers actually sold meat to wholesalers at less per pound than they had paid the farmers. Nevertheless. Swift still had a profit of $12 million. In short, the elimination of all the packers' profits on meat sales would have little effect on the farmer...
EAST-WEST TRADE will increase only slightly asa result of the U.S. decision, to ease controls on exports to Russia and satellites next year. Exporters will no longer need individual licenses for each shipment, but will still be limited to nonstrategic goods, e.g., tallow, hides and tobacco. U.S. exports to Russia will remain a trickle ($6,000,000 a year v. $45 million in. Soviet imports) unless the Iron Curtain; countries decide to buy American farm food surpluses or step up purchases of farm and textile machinery...
Killin' & Drawin'. As their principal remedy, the quacks used a paste in an age-old combination: a "killin' salve" (sorrel and sweetgum bark) and a "drawin' salve" (chestnut-oak bark mixed with equal parts of "mutton tallow, pine resin and coon root"). For "small cancers, malignant or not": a salve made of the whites of two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one tablespoonful of bee honey, and a teaspoonful of bluestone dust...
This week, at a banquet in London's Tallow Chandlers' Hall, a group of white-tied notables gathered to pay tribute to Shipley's crusade. Just 200 years had passed since he organized his famous meeting of "Noblemen, Clergy, Gentlemen & Merchants" to set up what has subsequently become the Royal Society of Arts. Since then, the society has inspired, rewarded and publicized thousands of different projects, has been as effective a catalyst to Britain's wealth and might as any the nation has had. In 200 years, it has also earned itself a title: "England...