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...moustache, bought a 69? cap, and smoked stogies whenever any black marketeer was looking. He got himself an old truck, and a "partner" who knew something about meat. Within three weeks he had bought from wholesalers (at about double the ceiling prices) nearly 1,300 pounds of beef, 176 pounds of veal, 250 pounds of smoked hams and pork shoulders, 225 pounds of bacon. A ton of meat was his goal, and he made it-without ever paying a red point. To show it could be done, he also bought 10,000 red stamps in the black market...
...intrepid pioneers of science announced a stomach-shaking discovery last week. Drs. Alfred H. Free and Jack R. Leonards, both biochemists at the medical school of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, first stuffed themselves on horse meat. (They would have preferred beef but lacked the ration points.) Then for several days they fasted, testing their blood at intervals...
Next each drank about three quarts of beef blood. Again for days they fasted and tested...
...adding $15 million to the $560 million annual meat subsidy, the Government hopes to increase the supply of beef and pork. This week Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis explained how: ¶Higher prices ($7 million more) will be paid to packers of Army beef, and all packers who operated profitably in peace time and can prove a loss from their cur rent packing operations will receive a special subsidy. In addition...
...prices of corn and range cattle are high, fattened cattle are too expensive. Midwest feed-lot operators charged that this resulted in a senseless waste of meat. Cattle moving from the ranges to the feedlots for finishing on corn would gain 300 to 500 Ibs. of rich, marble-grained beef...