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...Corned Beef. Near Denton, N.C., after he noticed an alarming outbreak of butting, kicking and downright foolishness in his cattle herd, Farmer C. P. Ward moseyed through the woods near his pastureland, stumbled across an illicit moonshine still...
...stir up Congress, Harry Truman decided to stir up the homefolks. Earnestly facing a battery of microphones and television cameras one night last week, he accused an old enemy, the National Association of Manufacturers, and unidentified "beef lobbyists" of trying to scuttle wage-price controls. Unless the people banded together to defeat these "special interests," he warned, prices would go "through the roof," the nation's economy would be wrecked and Russia would "win the world to totalitarianism without firing a shot...
...midst of the cattlemen's fury over his price rollbacks on beef, Price Stabilizer Mike Di Salle went to a University of Denver banquet, complained after taking only a couple of nibbles of his sirloin: "I just can't stand steak any more" (see BUSINESS...
...dark-paneled room in Chicago's Saddle & Sirloin Club last week, Price Boss Michael V. Di Salle faced a crowd of 250 angry cattlemen and told them what's what on the subject of beef controls. Six months ago, said he, cattlemen had assured him that if beef prices were left uncontrolled, they would level off. By April, livestock prices had soared another 12%, and the total rise up to the present since January 1950 to 53% (v. only 14% for all foods). Said Di Salle: "Under these circumstances, we were forced to come through with a program...
...cattle off the market no longer began to ship again; receipts in the nation's stockyards climbed back almost to normal. The big meat packers were beginning to slaughter again, though still less than 50% of the normal rate. The big packers still could not get top-grade beef at low enough prices; instead, they were buying grass-fed animals straight from the ranges. Even with the gradual return to normality, the trouble was far from over; feeders were still not buying animals for fattening and sale in the fall. No one could tell whether Mike Di Salle...