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...leave their dog, Skippy, behind, giving him to a kindly neighbor boy. Last week a tattered, footsore and weary Skippy turned up in Morris, and took his accustomed place at the Fossen dinner table. Any doubt of Skippy's identity vanished when he passed up roast beef to gorge on lettuce and tomato salad with mayonnaise, long his favorite dish...
Tongue-Tied. In Carlsbad, N. Mex., the sheriff's office intercepted a letter which advised two prisoners charged with passing a phony check: "Smear your face with rosewater, roots and salt. Then cut open a beef tongue and write the names of opposition witnesses inside and bury it, and no judge will dare to convict...
Many a Fair Dealer jumped to the conclusion that the meat industry was putting profits before patriotism. But in Chicago, the A.F.L. Meat Cutters' union put the blame squarely on price controls. The union made it clear that the packers could not sell the beef because they could not buy it on the hoof without losing money. "It is better to scrap all meat controls," warned the union, "than to precipitate a meat shortage, black markets and industry unemployment...
Steaks on the Hoof. The paradox is that the U.S. is short of meat when it has more beef on the hoof than ever before in its history. By year's end, there will be an estimated 90 million cattle on the ranges v. 1945's alltime peak of 85,573,000. Yet, because of OPS snarls, 10% fewer cattle are now being slaughtered than last year. And despite record meat prices, packers, who traditionally make only 1? on every $1 of sales, can hardly break even (Armour lost $1,600,000 in its latest quarter...
...main trouble is that OPS has put ceilings on every form of beef except the live animals. Since there is no way to set such a ceiling (it is impossible to grade beef before slaughter), livestock prices have gone right on climbing...