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...best calculated measures of the new Secretary of Agriculture can still be badly upset by acts of God. If the corn crop is very short, it will be impossible to fatten enough cattle and hogs, even if prices make fattening profitable-light beef of inferior quality may be forced on the market when ranges dry up. Conversely, if the weather continues wet and the corn fails to harden before frost, there may be so much soft corn, unfit for storage, that too many cattle will be kept on that cheap feed instead of going to market...
...Kentucky and West Virginia coal miners refused to work. In Philadelphia, hospitals and war plant cafeterias could find meat for only one meal a week. In the Texas Panhandle, where the ranges were overstocked with fat, grazing herds, it was hard to find even a hunk of stewing beef...
...Mobilizer Fred M. Vinson tried to move more beef and pork to markets by broadening and upping (by an estimated $100 million) the $560 million annual Government subsidy to packers and cattle feeders. To the U.S. public, which would eventually pay the bill in taxes, he offered assurance of 1) no higher retail meat prices and 2) more meat in six months. Everybody hoped he was right...
...commissioner, Albert ("Happy") Chandler, decided to go to bat. One of the reasons why he got the job was because he had influence in Washington. Happy went straight to President Truman. At the same time, Illinois Congressman Melvin Price went to the War Department with a well-publicized beef about P.A. discrimination. Last week, the War Department agreed that professional athletes unable to meet general physical requirements should not be grabbed by the Army. Further, questionable or below-standard cases (such as Poland, Northey, Litwhiler, et a/.) will be reviewed, and some discharges may result...
Highpoint meat, butter, canned fruit and other hard-to-get items were scratched from P.O.W. menus. Substitutes: beef hearts, liver, low-grade cuts for stew (twice a week), margarine (once a day), stewed fruit, more spaghetti, more bread to maintain a calorie count equal to the standard U.S. Army garrison ration...