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...Reader Lacey ponder other Agriculture Department figures; 54% of the total U.S. farm increase in milk production in 1942 over 1941 came from the 500,000 lowest-income farms, 5% of the increase in pork, 10% eggs, 32% beef, 19% chickens...
...solution: "I gotta make a living and I gotta keep my customers satisfied. Every morning I make the rounds of four black-market outfits. In one I say to the guy 'I'll bet you $25 you can't get me a side of beef.' I lay the cash on the table and I always lose the bet. What the hell would...
...before and a shortage-sharpened yen for meat, U.S. citizens pay without complaint far over ceiling prices. Los Angeles aircraft workers pay $1.95 a Ib. for steak, then display their prize like a Prohibition college boy showing off his flask; Manhattan housewives happily fork over 80? a Ib. for beef liver...
Through the raid Berlin's great antiaircraft defenses thundered in the night. But strong as they still were, they had apparently been reduced in strength to beef up the defenses of the Ruhr. Also it seemed that the gunners were not alertly on the job. Britain lost only one bomber. When the R.A.F. crews gathered, teacups in hand, for their interrogations back home, they agreed that few night fighters had come up to meet them...
...anesthetic to avoid damage to the tissues, fats and cells during the squeeze.") He reports reductions in volume (over and above dehydration reductions) of 90% for sauerkraut, 80% for cabbage, 75% for potatoes, 65% for onions, beets and carrots, 50% for egg powder, prepared desserts, dehydrated soups. Beef for stews in one-inch chunks squeezes down 70%, hamburger bulk is reduced 55%. Puffed rice, voluminous as a pound of feathers, can be compressed 86%. Puffed rice, combined with powdered skim milk and sugar in a lozenge, can, with the addition of warm water, swell into a mess cup full...