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Although most other commodity prices either dropped last week or showed signs of leveling off, the Dow-Jones Futures Index-which gives consumers their best glimpse of price rises to come-closed at 177.34. It was still 4% under the postwar high, but about 15% higher than at the outbreak of the Korean...
...wanted all cattle in the infected area destroyed, the new policy paid off. In 19 months mixed Mexican-American teams, criss-crossing the country in cream-colored trucks, vaccinated the 17 million cattle in the danger zone four times each (immunization lasts only for about four months). No outbreak of aftosa has been discovered since December 1949. This week the last sleek steer received his last injection...
...next few months will tell whether the vaccination campaign has fully achieved its purpose. Quarantine, inspection and disinfection will continue. If in two years there is no further outbreak of aftosa, there is a good chance that the U.S. ban on importation of Mexican beef -which once totaled half a million head of livestock a year-will be lifted...
...orders were designed to step up the aircraft industry's 1950 production goal to 100 million Ibs. of airframe weight, v. the 36,600,000 Ibs. on order prior to the outbreak of war in Asia. In terms of planes, it meant an increase from the 2,372 aircraft already on order for the Air Force and Navy to more than 6,000 planes. For the aircraft industry it was no longer a battle for money but against time. It would take at least nine months to double current plane production...
...done themselves by overthrowing the cult of respect to our ancestors which we Tonkinese have inherited from Confucius. Sometimes Ho recites verse. Sometimes he cracks a joke. I remember once-in Annamite we use the same word for 'cholera' as for 'left'-we had an outbreak of cholera, and he told the minister of health: 'You had better get this under control or people will think we are favoring the left...