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...July, the U.S. had boosted the price about 20% *-something like $30,000,000 in Cuban pockets. Then President Ramón Grau San Martin announced that his Government would take the increase, use it to subsidize food imports so that Cubans might get their rice, beans and jerked beef cheaper...
...Madge, Listen . . . But in Manhattan a thousand sharpies got the word "beef" on the grapevine from the 14th Street Market, were thus able to stand in the rain all night, get into the scrimmage and out again with the bacon by noon the next day. You could get a bear roast in Denver if you knew the right party. And all over the U.S. people were eating venison. A lot of old poacher's tricks were as good as ever, although discretion was necessary. An overanxious hunter in Puente, Calif, got arrested last week after he chased a buck...
...Government was not wholly to blame, but the Government was responsible. There were plenty of cattle around -over 40 million beef cattle on ranges and farms, by conservative estimate. In 1939 there were only 30 million, and everyone who could afford it then had all the meat he could eat. Now producers were hanging on to their cattle in hopes of getting a better price. But the people did not really blame the producers. It was the Government, which had tried to replace the good old profit system with something else...
...will have a hard time finding any appreciable difference between the new Bright Day and such earlier efforts as The Good Companions and Angel Pavement. Changeless Author Priestley is still his typically British 'arf-an'-'arf self -half an able, warmhearted craftsman whose values rest on beef and decency, half a left-of-center propagandist, who views bureaucratic Laborites and heartless boosters of free enterprise with the same beady...
Besides perfectly conditioned beef and brawn, Leahy can count on some help from the far sidelines-from nuns in convents, whose Saturday radio-side prayers go something like this: "God's will be done . . . but if it doesn't make any difference, let Notre Dame win." Says Frank Leahy, a realist, "The prayers work better when the players...