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Furthermore, the unrealistic corn-hog price ratio that had kept so many hogs on the farm, and so much corn going into them in the last year or so, was done for. Cash corn soared from $1.46½ to $2.25 a bu. at Chicago, far too high to make it profitable to feed it to hogs. Instead, it came off the farms (1,000,000 bushels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The Battle Begins | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...veterans-new and old-are eligible for the two remaining games on the spring schedule, BU and Yale," Samborski declared last night, "and all students-veterans and civilians-will be able to play in the games arranged for the summer term." However, any veteran who attended another college as a civilian will not be able to perform against Boston University and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Baseball Practice Begins Today; New Men Sought to Fill Starting Lineup | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...than become a machinist, as his father wanted. He went to Florida and worked on a tomato farm, where he got the idea for the seedling business. At 17, he returned to Tifton, started to raise plants. First year's yield: 35 Ibs. of cabbage seed, some 350 bu. of potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: King Tomato | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Crimson batters opened up in the seventh, when Harper replaced Snow on the mound for BU. After Jack Coppinger singled and Armen Essayan put down a perfect bunt, Phelan walked to load the bases. A double to center by Saul Mariaschin and a single from Don Swegan's bat brought in three runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phelan Defeats B.U. in 6-0 Shutout, Allows 3 Hits for Second Win | 5/7/1946 | See Source »

...relieving ripple beyond vision; rolling prairies, like the heaving surface of the ocean congealed to earth; vast uplands lifting slowly with no barrier but a barbed-wire fence to the terminal barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In good years, this vast food factory poured out some 800 million bu. of wheat, some 2,800 million bu. of corn, 1,200 million bu. of oats, 63 million hogs, 33 million beef cattle, 36 million sheep, 82 million lbs. of milk, 3,200 million lbs. of butterfat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Man against Hunger | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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