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...Recipe. From the start of the cold war, censorship was always ironhanded, often mysterious. In 1947, when Gilmore filed a light feature story on how Russian housewives cook shashlik and beef Stroganoff, the censor deleted everything in the story except the recipe, apparently because he thought the discussion of Russian eating habits was intended to make them look barbaric. Newsmen never set eyes on the censors or knew who they were. They simply took three copies of every story to entrance No. 10 at the Moscow Central Telegraph Office. If the story cleared quickly, newsmen got it back...
...company to take on the world's biggest housekeeping job, General Cervices Administrator Edmund F. Mansure, 52, has found so many ways to save the Government money that he is becoming almost as legendary an economizer as was parsimonious Cal Coolidge. Mansure is so meticulous that when eating beef hash, he separates the meat from the potatoes. Unlike most bureaucrats who throw away paper clips, Mansure keeps his until he has a big enough pile to turn over to his secretary. Aware that time is also money, he saves it with staff warnings: "Observe the three Bs-be brief...
Beautiful Chart. New York's Dorset Foods, Ltd., a canner of poultry and meats, last year introduced five low-calorie soups, recently added a line of "substance" low-calorie products, including beef stew, chicken fricassee and a chicken-vegetable dinner. Dietetic Food Co., Inc., which started producing foods for diabetics 26 years ago, now has a full low-calorie line, including candy, desserts, chewing gum and a new ice cream. Sales of high-protein foods, like meat, are up; protein-bread makers are also cashing in on the bonanza. Said an official of Ralston Purina, makers...
Rain fell last week on east Texas and scattered sections of west Texas. The rain, plus announcement of an $8,000,000 federal-aid program, brightened the spirits of drought-stricken Texas ranchers. The rush to ship cattle to the stockyards tapered off, and beef rose $1 to $4 per 100 lbs. But the drought was far from over. And when and if it does end, Texas' water problems will be far from solved...
Town Without Water. All this spells financial disaster for some cattlemen, although there are many who have shored up their financial position out of the huge profits of recent years. Eventually, consumers all over the U.S. will feel the effects. Although beef prices are down at the butcher shops now because of the market glut, premature marketing and sale of foundation herds are likely to lead to serious beef shortages and high prices in the months ahead...