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...although if the war moves quickly off Italian soil, and if enough of her demobilized soldiers return to the farms, Italy could be 95% self-sufficient in food. Normally producing a surplus of fresh fruits and vegetables, Italy is dependent on imports for meat, eggs, coffee, oats, corn and wheat. Her wheat supply has in recent years been stepped up by the successful reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, but her estimated annual wheat supply of 7,000,000 tons is still less than 90% of her rock-bottom requirements...
...Saturday night the field had narrowed to five honey blondes, one chestnut blonde, one corn-tassel blonde, two brunettes, one redhead. They stalked back & forth across the stage in formal gowns, danced, sang and displayed in somber black bathing suits what used to win Miss America contests. Judging took so long that the master of ceremonies ran out of gags, took to reading comic strips aloud. Said Sergeant Silvagni's wife, a bathing-beauty expert: "I thought they'd be a bunch of dogs this time. But they're prettier than I expected. They...
...finished on grain before going to market. The reason is that Midwestern feeders have been unable to pay Western cattlemen's high prices and still make a profit. Now that range grass is growing scarce, Western steers are stampeding, not to feeders who fatten steers into tasty corn-fed steaks, but directly to U.S. dining tables...
...September 1937, the Cargill Grain Co. of Illinois, a subsidiary of Cargill, Inc., virtually cornered the Chicago corn market, squeezed short sellers so tightly that the Chicago Board of Trade stepped in, told Cargill to sell corn holdings at an arbitrary price. Cargill refused to comply. In 1938, the Board of Trade expelled Cargill of Illinois from the Board for its price manipulations in the corner fight...
Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, sure that his state could outsell all others in the new War Bond drive, wrote a put-up-or-shut-up letter to all other governors, wagered "one beautiful, big, corn-fed Nebraska hog." Governor Homer Adkins of Arkansas promptly threw into the kitty one white-faced Arkansas calf...