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...were swamped. It is not worth butchering hogs that weigh less than 80 lb. Since the average weight of the hogs received was only 60 lb. not many of them could be made into pork for distribution to the unemployed. It had been planned to "tank" the smaller hogs: convert them into grease, byproducts and "tankage" (fertilizer). When the tanking equipment of the St. Louis stockyards was completely overwhelmed by piglets, the Farm Administration gave orders to salvage only grease (about 8% of pigs by weight). Last week the remainder of the piglets-which represented over half what the government...
Maybe an old time cover-to-cover reader will tell a comparatively recent newsstand convert what to do on meeting an asterisk...
...bill its member states. Last week League accountants agreed that "this was certainly the most expensive conference ever held." The British Government has already paid $100,000 to compensate the League "for the additional cost of holding the Conference in London rather than at Geneva," spent $38,000 to convert London's new Geological Museum to the Conference's use (TIME, June 19). The Guild Hall banquet to the Conference cost $10,000 and His Majesty's Government estimated last week that $250,000 had been spent on official hospitality. With every Great Power spending more than...
...Lord Tilbury, looking down, saw that a portion of her afternoon meal, in the shape of an appetizing potato, had been dislodged from the main convert and had rolled out of bounds. It was this that was causing the silver medalist's distress and despondency. Like all prize pigs who take their career seriously, Empress of Blandings hated to miss anything that might be eaten and converted into firm flesh...
...Chamberlain's proposal it took more than $4.85 in depreciated dollars to buy an English pound. He offered to convert at a rate of $3.85-thus giving a premium of one dollar in every pound to bondholders willing to convert. This premium, Mr. Chamberlain told the House of Commons, would be paid because of His Majesty's Government's "moral obligation" to compensate holders of the bonds injured by the U. S. Congress' cancellation of their "gold clause." Up from a Labor bench popped Sir Stafford Cripps. "This is the first time," he shouted, "that...