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Minnesota's Republican Senator Edward J. Thye, among other public officials, backed them up. He asked for a quick, short Government pork-buying program while the fall hog run is at its height. Said a Benson aide: "The Department of Agriculture is watching the hog market closely, and has already developed machinery for making purchases, should they be deemed necessary. Buying could get under way on short notice." The purchases would amount to something like 170 million lbs., only 1½% of the year's total expected output. But it is big enough to raise prices if compressed...
Ezra Benson hesitated to give the order. Pork's troubles go too deep to be cured easily by price props. U.S. consumers are losing their taste for pork because 1) they are cutting down on fatty foods, and 2) they followed the advice of the Agriculture Department to eat more beef (which was a propaganda maneuver to raise beef prices) back in 1953. From the 1933-35 period to 1954, U.S. per-capita beef consumption jumped by some 24 lbs., to an estimated 79; pork consumption edged up by less than...
MEAT PRICES WILL DROP this winter. Record slaughters and recent drops in wholesale hog prices have cut the retail price of pork chops by 6%, loin roast by 10%, bacon 2%, ham 5%, with more reductions in prospect straight through until next March. Beef prices, which have been rising, will follow the trend, are expected to start dropping next month...
...naturally into the scene. Edward Andrews succeeds wonderfully: he hits the apogee of Southern villainy as he slomires agreeably about town, sweet-talking old ladies, flipping quarters like a slow jackpot, and looking all the while like a fat, greasy thumb that has been stuck too long in the pork barrel...
...meter of a French ballade. At school and throughout his Navy career, Wouk held fast to Jewish law and custom. On the Liberty ship taking him to the Pacific in 1942, Wouk often ate nothing but bread and potatoes, because the ship's menu was dominated by pork. One day he posted a satirical poem on the bulletin board...