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...Ford County, on the fringe of the onetime dust bowl, ten million bushels of wheat were in fabulous prospect. So far everything was wonderful; the waving golden ocean of wheat had been estimated on May i at 150,000,000 bu. for all Kan sas; by June 1 the crop looked more like 165,000,000 bu. 20,000,000 bu. more than last year. By night, with stubby pencils the Ford County farmers reckoned their profits, at a bumper prospect of 30 bu. an acre. They figured they would get $1.50 a bu., biggest price in a good year...
...food is the equivalent of adding 25 million people to the U.S. population; 3) years of rich harvests and low feed costs have encouraged livestock producers to increase their herds to alltime highs. Grain men last week estimated that to supplement the short stocks of feed, 470 million bu. of wheat will be fed to livestock during the crop year...
...even this successful program will probably run afoul of shortages of 1) alcohol, 2) grain. Fortnight ago, WPB wangled another 38,000,000 bu. of grain from the War Food Administration, is now furiously working to finish three alcohol distilling plants at Omaha, Kansas City and Muscatine, Iowa. But WPB can get no more grain without cutting into the U.S. food and feed supply. Petroleum must do the rest...
...bu. of precious feed grain, more than 60% above last year's shipments...
...municipal job during the last war and jumped the grade of captain when he was made Bureau Chief. To Ben Moreell belongs much credit for the gigantic job of building the Navy's worldwide bases. Other typical non-Annapolis staff corps admirals: Ross T. Mclntire, Chief of the Bu reau of Medicine and Surgery; William...