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...commodity markets, where falling prices have worried the Administration, there was some cheer last week. Wholesale pork prices went up and beef prices steadied. As dust storms whipped the winter-wheat areas of the Southwest, wheat prices scooted up 4½ to 6½? a bushel; corn, helped by news that the Government would step up purchases, also moved higher. The rally in grain prices was the best in two months...
This week, as his second elected term began, Don Federico found his country little changed. Smugglers were running much of the nation's cattle across the border into Brazil to escape unrealistic price controls on beef. Bureaucrats were selling illegal import and export licenses. And the important quebracho, tobacco and cotton trade with Argentina was logjammed against Juan Perón's nationalistic economy. Now exiles have become Paraguay's principal export; of the 1,500,000 population, more than 100,000 (some estimates run up to 500,000) are refugees abroad. Most are members...
Rancho Dobe's Storm is a sleek, husky (92 Ibs.) Doberman pinscher who leads a pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required...
...unfailing gusto for life's beer & beef marks the latest work of Anglo-Irish author...
Stampede to the Stockpens. The loudest cries of pain last week came from the cattlemen. Nationwide, the on-the-hoof price for beef cattle of all grades has dropped about 30% since the post-Korea high last spring. A fortnight ago the Omaha cattle market saw its worst break in three years, as choice steers slipped to 23.4? a lb.; a year ago, such steers brought 34?. The basic reason for the cattle-price decline is that beef animals are in long supply; by Agriculture Department estimates, the nation's cattle population has grown some 20% in the past...