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Last week kindly, determined President Avila Camacho took supermannish steps to bring the cost of living and income into line. He ordered: 1) measures to increase production of corn and sugar; 2) another attempt to freeze basic food prices...
...More Corn, More Money. Most important of the decrees was the one aimed at increasing corn production. For Mexicans, corn is the staff of life-they eat it in tortillas, as cereal, and on the ear in season-and corn is critically short...
Avila Camacho ordered 250,000 acres on the tropical coasts planted in corn, the planting of more corn on lands not used for sugar. Border states put a stricter watch on bootlegged corn liquor trickling across to the whiskey-short U.S. Sole purchaser of corn will be the Government, which will distribute it on a zonal basis...
...country and cowboy balladry like Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff and Al Dexter were selling on disks as never before. Top-flight songsters like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were making their biggest smashes with hill billy tunes. A homely earful of the purest Texas corn, Al Dexter's Pistol Packin' Mama, had edged its way to first place among the nation's juke-box favorites...
Removals. In Rosalia, Wash., H. C. Roberts, who had already got rid of a corn by cutting off his little toe, got rid of another by cutting off his other little toe. In St. Augustine, Fla., somebody finally got the nickels from a Florida East Coast Railway pay toilet by making off with the door...