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...Russian armies. He stopped over in Egypt to bring home with him the first-hand feel of the fighting-got a very authentic six-days' sample bouncing across the desert with the British troops all the way past Tobruk-dodging Nazi bombs with them and sharing their bully beef and the dusty taste of victory. In contrast, he flew back to Cairo in six hours in a British bomber whose crew fed him chicken and ham pie and fresh fruit...
...many an operator to pay. Laborers are abandoning the seven-day-week grind of cow-tending for easier, better-paid city work. Thus big & little farmers are selling herds: the culls for slaughter, the good cows mostly to neighbors; heifers-next year's cows-are being sold for beef at fantastic prices. Results: fewer cows were milked in October than any other time since 1933; production per cow this autumn fell 1% from last fall; farmers are squeezed in a mesh of prices, wages, labor shortages...
Farmers want other solutions: 1) firm Government control so milk cows and heifers cannot be sold for beef; 2) control of farm labor; 3) a feed price ceiling, with a floor for at least a year after the war to allow readjustments on farms; 4) higher prices for dairymen themselves, maybe direct subsidies and bonuses (like Canada's) to encourage production; 5) assurance of getting essential machines and equipment...
Throughout the whole battle area, from the El Alamein line to Mersa Matrûh, large pockets of Italian soldiers, abandoned to their fate, wearily sought some British soldier or some British unit to take them back to prisoners' camp where they would get bully-beef and biscuits, but more than anything else a pint of water per man. When rain fortunately fell the other day, these bunches of Italians turned their faces to the sky and allowed the cooling blessing from heaven to trickle down their throats...
Today Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School has 1,600 acres, a small endowment, a herd of 40 cattle, a new beef barn just completed by its students. Last week old Dr. Andy, now 75 and retired, noted with satisfaction that his little school was giving a good account of itself beyond, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. Seventy of his boys, nearly a third of all who have graduated from his junior college, went off to fight for their country. One, Marine Elza O'Neal, was captured on Wake Island ("Send more Japs"); another, Lieut. William R. Ussery, was killed...