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...Come Back." The toll in southwest Missouri's beef and dairy country is sickening. Millions of acres of pasture are dead right down to the roots, thousands of trees are dying, stock ponds are muddy hollows, trucks are hauling water to farms in almost every conceivable kind of container. Thousands of farmers, running out of grain and hay, are dumping part or all of their cattle on the market at sacrifice prices. For the past two months, the stockyards in St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield have been jammed to the gates with calves that should have been kept...
When the clouds gathered for World War II, Cohn was again sidetracked, as he saw it, from his protein work. The armed forces wanted to be assured of a supply of blood plasma, and the Navy thought Cohn should try to get it from beef blood because human donors would never suffice. Cohn found beef blood unpromising, and started a neighborhood donor service from which the Red Cross learned a lot. So the armed forces used human plasma...
Since he founded Hygrade in 1914, with a stake of $15,000, Slotkin has made a habit of buying up rivals. He started with a simple principle: the best way to sell frankfurters was to make their contents a known quantity-pure beef-and to package them under a known brand name. This idea soon gave him a commanding hold on the New York hot-dog market. By 1929, hungry for expansion, he was ready to move into Chicago, where big Allied Packers was on the "block...
When undergraduates signed board agreements last week, few worried beyond the probability of chipped beef on toast for Sunday night supper. Officials of the dining halls were no more farsighted. As a result of this double myopia, most students during the year will be paying full price for meals they never taste...
...Expand French forces and beef up the Vietnamese army (if possible with small additions from Laos and Cambodia) to an overall total of 500,000 men. This number will enable the French Union to contest the control of every village and clearing against the Viet Minh, also release the mobile French Union forces for massive attacks on major Red bases, concentrations and supply lines...