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...King spoke, on the seventh floor of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier (see above), his hope of avoiding wartime political controversy went glimmering. Down in a gilded ballroom on the first floor, National Tory Leader John Bracken was addressing a Party convention. Some 500 Tories, banquet-fed on roast beef and raspberry roll, heard Bracken roar a familiar Tory charge: "inadequacy of [Army] reinforcements...
...Whilefoodstuffs and other agricultural products make up 16% of all Lend-Lease transfers, they amounted to only 8% of U.S. total food production in 1944; Lend-Lease shipments of beef were only seven-tenths of 1% of U.S. 1944 supply...
Black Markets. Inevitably, trade was brisk in the black markets, where the only challenge to prices was the law of supply & demand. OPA announced the seizure of 50 million red ration coupons (enough points to buy a total week's supply of beef for U.S. civilians), worth an estimated $2.5 million to the counterfeiters. This rich haul surprised no one in OPA or the meat industry. The only secret about the vast nationwide black market in meat is the exact number of millions of animals diverted to this trade each year...
...like old times last week in Chicago's drab, drafty South Side: the number of beef cattle arriving at the slaughter houses was the highest for any week in February in 26 years. Busy drovers and commission men tallied a total of 57,565 head...
...this prospect of more beef failed to cheer dapper, brisk George A. Eastwood, 65, president of Armour & Co. In words as sharp as a cleaver stroke, Eastwood told Armour stockholders that total packinghouse production would probably drop...