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...wheel, phlegmatically stirring his bayonet around inside a Communist. As usual, he makes a more convincing display than most of Hollywood's he-men can. And when Lauren asks him why he killed a Communist soldier, surely only Wayne could get away with that roast-of-beef expression and the puzzled reply: "Seemed like a good idea...
Friday. The President's appetite continued to be good, and at breakfast he asked for, and got, a strip of his favorite beef bacon. But his doctors restricted him to a rigid 1,600-calorie-a-day diet to keep his weight down. During the day two hospital orderlies lifted Ike to a new hospital bed that can be raised and lowered from the floor by an electric motor. The apparatus will make it easier for the President to get in and out of bed when he is allowed to walk. Lieut. Knox read to him from Sir Arthur...
MEAT PRICES WILL DROP this winter. Record slaughters and recent drops in wholesale hog prices have cut the retail price of pork chops by 6%, loin roast by 10%, bacon 2%, ham 5%, with more reductions in prospect straight through until next March. Beef prices, which have been rising, will follow the trend, are expected to start dropping next month...
Furthermore, it is doing its best to beef up 13 small feeder airlines (Mohawk, Allegheny, Bonanza, etc.), put them in position to get off their $25 million annual subsidy by handing out new routes-some of them in competition with big airlines-and permanent certificates as scheduled carriers. The airlines view the new routes as mixed blessings. The airlines liked getting new routes that gave them a crack at someone else's passengers, but almost all have protested new routes that increased their own competition...
...paying farmers some $500 million a year to plant grass and cover crops rather than commercial crops. Farm economists were quick to point out that this plan, like almost all farm plans, has a loophole for farmers. Farmers could graze cattle on the idle land, and by increasing beef production would put a downward pressure on beef prices...