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...degree in Texas. When the Republic National Bank decided to build in Dallas the tallest skyscraper in Texas, it tore down a six-story building only three years old to make room. The geography books once described east Texas as a land of cotton, west Texas as beef country. Today the books are out of date. Cotton was wearing out east Texas land. Today it is prime cattle-grazing country and west Texas is cotton country. East & west, oil derricks prick the Texas sky and a 50-year-old boom goes...
Jenner took every opportunity to stand at Eisenhower's elbow, slap his shoulders, get photographed with him. At a roast-beef luncheon, Jenner closed a roaring speech by telling how he had visited a hospital nursery where the newborn squalled noisily. Cried Jenner: "If you came into the world and you had nothing but a diaper on, and you owed the Government $2,000 as your part of the national debt, and your diaper was wet, by God, you'd be crying too!" Ike colored, ducked his head, put both hands over his ears-then laughed gustily...
Photographer Ralph P. Creer of Chicago, who specializes in medical pictures, had often heard that human and animal eyes are natural cameras. But he had never seen any pictures taken with them. Creer got a collection of pig, sheep and beef eyes from Chicago's stockyards and set to work...
...down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates and higher packinghouse wages would make it impossible to pass on all of the wholesale drops. And ranchers themselves argued that demand is apt to go right on rising with the supply. The U.S., eating 48.7 Ibs. of beef per person in 1930, last year ate 63 Ibs. in spite of high prices. With incomes high, any cut in beef prices is apt to bring a lot more buying of sirloin from people who have had to make do with hamburger. And that is apt to keep prices from falling...
...crowded the biggest shipments of steers since World War II's end. Some had come from such drought-parched areas as Oklahoma, where ranchers could not grass-feed them any longer. But most of the shipments were moving because of a simple fact: after six years of high beef prices and bumper corn crops for feed, U.S. ranges are bulging with 88 million head of beef cattle, the greatest in history...