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CONTROLS Needed: A Free Market When the U.S. Army tried to buy 13 million Ibs. of beef last week, all major U.S. packers refused the business. Only two small companies submitted bids-for a mere 190,000 Ibs. With soldiers' meat rations running low, the Army announced that it would try to find the beef overseas...
...country, where the warm Chinook blowing off the Rockies keeps the rich range grasses clear of snow, is one of North America's great pasture lands. Its sleek, black Aberdeen-Angus, white-faced Herefords and square-built red Shorthorns provide more than a quarter of Canada's beef supply; steaks from Alberta steers are eaten as far away as Karachi, capital of Pakistan, half the circuit around the globe...
This represents a basic change in University policy. Until now the University has charged the same for all dinners, roast beef or chipped beef regardless...
Small Taxes. To market the beef from their ranches, where they run 15,000 head of cattle, they built their own packing plant. They added a chain of wholesale and retail general stores, four Chevrolet agencies, four movie theaters, some 20 other enterprises. "We were doing in a hurry," says Chito, "what it took a hundred years...
...with magnificently bronzed complexions glowing with not quite believable health." Noting Sportcaster Red Barber's comment on First Baseman Hodges' rippling muscles, Critic Smith added: "You could see 'em, too, although they were encased in a pelt of somewhat lovelier tone-about the shade of roast beef medium-than Gil wears in real life...