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...plaguing the visitor with a harpoon. As for mere sharks, they worried no one: it became sport to haul them aboard by the tail with the bare hand. The Kon-Tiki's food kept well, stored below the deck in asphalt-coated containers, and seafood was a glut in the galley. Flying fish, good eating, practically flung themselves at the frying...
...industry had overtaken all demand and for the first time since World War II found itself producing more oil than it could sell. State commissions, which set the legal flow of oil from wells in the five big producing states, cut back the allowable production, to prevent a bigger glut...
...when the frozen-food market collapsed that year, in a glut of low-grade products, the three partners did not have enough capital to weather the disastrous drop in prices. For $250,000 they sold Snow Crop's name and good will to Clinton Foods Inc., third largest U.S. producer of corn products, took jobs as heads of the corporation's new frozen-foods division. Moone promptly sank $15 million of Clinton's money into groves and four packing plants, contracted to take the entire output of 39 more plants. Pushed along by a big advertising campaign...
...near-record crop of 37 million pigs began moving to market this spring, the seasonal glut sent the average price of pork dropping to $16 a hundredweight. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan warned Congress that unless it gave the Commodity Credit Corp. an extra $2 billion for the overall price-propping program, he could not support the pork market. When Congress did nothing, Brannan's economists gloomily predicted that unsupported pork might fall as low as $10 a hundredweight...
When the farmers up in Aroostook County grew too many potatoes, the government stepped in and bought the extra. When the hog growers out Iowa way raised too many pigs, the government stepped in and bought up the glut. But when the Johnson Company canned an oversupply of Bestoval Cocktail Fruit Mixture last fall no one came to their aid. A serious cut in the price of cocktail fruit mixture threatened! If the University authorities hadn't acted decicevly right then, there is no telling what might have happened...