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With steers beginning to jam stockyard pens and hogs flooding to market, the U.S. Government moved to put more meat on U.S. platters. It did this by lifting quotas on livestock slaughter so that the stockyard pens could be cleared. It also lowered ration points on many meat items...
...Tribune for first rank in any like poll in 1941. Alone among U.S. newspapers since 1933, the Tribune has got its papers burned in public bonfires, its offices rotten-egged. Also unique is the range of hatred for the Tribune: it cuts across all class lines in Chicago, from stockyard worker to millionaire...
Died. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr., 81, pioneer meat packer, president (1910-26) of the Cudahy Packing Co.; in Chicago. Onetime stockyard cowboy, he and his brother Michael worked for Armour & Co., later established their own business. In 1900 Edward Sr. ransomed his son Edward Jr. from Kidnapper Pat Crowe for $25,000 in gold...
...great temples amid blue lakes, green slopes and high peaks, a roughhewn, hard-bitten soldier of Cortez' army in 1519 cried, "It is like the enchantments they tell of in the Legend of Amadis! Are not the things we see a dream?" But soon he smelled the sickening stockyard stench which was wafted from the gorgeous temples, saw thousands of skulls threaded on poles in the public squares...
Truckers. Groggy from typhoid and cholera inoculations, but bubbling with enthusiasm at the prospect of the toughest job of a tough career, rawboned, hulking, strikebreaking Dan Arnstein was en route from San Francisco to China. Product of the violence of Chicago's stockyard district, a onetime professional football player, a taxi driver in his youth, veteran of World War I, Dan Arnstein had pounded his way up until he owned and operated the Terminal Taxicab System of New York City. Smooth with success, hard-muscled with exercise, at 50 he had offered himself in a burst of patriotic fever...