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...industry will be told of the international emergency. They will be advised to change their crop plans from the five great domestic basic crops-cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, rice -over to the produce the world needs more desperately-dairy products (milk, eggs, butter, cheese), pork (and lard), beef, fruits, vegetables. They will not be told that they are entering the first phase of the most drastic change in U.S. farm economy since the invention of the harvester...
...London program he was listed at 168, the first time that the powers that be have acknowledged him to be less than 170, although it has been rumored consistently that he scales less than 165. He makes up with a perfection of style for what he lacks in "beef," and has certainly proved a proficient filler of the rowing socks left empty by Fluff Stevens, the 1940 captain...
...Manhattan housewives the Safeway invasion means more self-service stores, more butcher shops. (Many Reeves stores now lack meat counters, undoubtedly will get them.) Biggest single item in the Safeway turnover: beef. It will be sold by well-shaven, well-breakfasted clerks without mustaches. So Safeway's Employes' Manual decrees...
...Heard Vice President Henry Agard Wallace cast his first vote. Two months ago Wallace was at lunch when the Senate tie-voted, thus killing an amendment which would have permitted Argentine canned beef (and hemisphere good will) to enter the U.S. Religiously Mr. Wallace has sat through hours of dull sessions ever since, aching to get even. Last week his moment came. A "comma amendment" (meaning "minor") had been overlooked in hasty consideration of an appropriation bill. Mr. Wallace called for the ayes and nays. In the sleepy Senate no one answered. Like a flash the Vice President declared...
...whoop it up to the tune of 20 or 30 billions of dollars for the good-neighbor policy and hemisphere defense, but refuse to buy a little beef from the Argentine...