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...will be confronted by a unique set of problems. More than half his patients -and most of the waiting list of applicants-are psychiatric cases, 14% are tuberculous; "the turnover is slow, keeps 90% of VA hospital beds filled (compared with 85% for non-VA hospitals). Thanks to congressional pork-barreling, many VA hospitals are sparsely occupied white elephants, e.g., a modern, 1,000-bed general hospital in Dublin, Ga., has only 385 beds...
...Philip S. Land, S.J., assistant professor of economics at St. Louis University, declared in a newspaper interview that income-tax evasion is morally as well as legally wrong. Moralists who justify it on the grounds that some tax money finds its way into graft and some into pork-barrel projects are dead wrong, said Father Land. Despite some mistakes, the President and Congress "have given us a prudential judgment" in preparing the national budget and setting taxes. It is therefore "hard to conceive what more could be required of a legislature for a law binding in conscience...
...later took a meat-packing course at the University of Chicago. There his thesis on packaged lard caught the eye of a visiting executive from Swift, who offered him a trainee job with the company. In 1933 he became assistant to Holmes, then vice president in charge of the pork division, later moved up to vice president...
...Fischer. For some time they had been writing to their son and to his captors about visiting him. Farmer Fischer had written that he might bring along some of his registered Hampshire hogs. His son had reported the reaction of a guard to that proposition: a good idea; the pork might cement relations...
MEAT PRODUCTION in 1955 will break another record, topping 1954's 25.5 billion Ibs. by 500,000 Ibs. Cattle, veal and lamb will all match this year's supply, predicts the American Meat Institute, while pork may jump as much...