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Cattle to Market. Beef slaughterings have been running as much as 40% below last year-with the bulk going to the armed forces. But last week, on the Western ranges, kept green and thick by heavy spring rains, the grass was finally starting to dry up. Soon ranchers will have to start feeding their livestock grain, which is almost impossible to get, or send their herds off to market. This set the stage for a record stampede...
Pointer. In Natick, Mass., Sumner D. Hersey's family ate no meat for three weeks, saved the points for a birthday roast-beef dinner. Just before the 7-lb. roast was carved, Sumner Hersey's setter...
...Less beef (points on all cuts were raised; round steak now takes 13 points a pound...
...More black-market meat (as packers refused to buy cattle at the cattlemen's price, black-market dealers snapped it up; the rise in beef points broadened their retail market...
...York City's peppery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia warned his 7,500,000 constituents to go "very easy" on meat: "The supply of beef is about as low as it has ever been in the entire country." He predicted a meat "famine...