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...that easy. Budget Director Joseph Dodge ran into trouble when some of his fiscal surgeons decided to take $200 million out of the Interior Department's $235 million reclamation budget. To Easterners, "reclamation" is a fancy word for pork-barreling. To Westerners, who see federally-financed dams and canals as the only means of developing vast, arid stretches of their land, reclamation is what the Government exists to do. Last week this potent political fact was forcefully explained to Detroiter Dodge by his Western colleague, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay of Oregon. "Broth is never eaten...
...commodity markets, where falling prices have worried the Administration, there was some cheer last week. Wholesale pork prices went up and beef prices steadied. As dust storms whipped the winter-wheat areas of the Southwest, wheat prices scooted up 4½ to 6½? a bushel; corn, helped by news that the Government would step up purchases, also moved higher. The rally in grain prices was the best in two months...
...never lost what Thackeray called his ''manly relish of life." His last letter home bears witness: "I must have from Fordhook likewise four hams, a very fine hog fatted as soon as may be and being cut into flitches sent me, likewise a young hog made into pork and salted and pickled in a tub. A vast large Cheshire cheese, and one of Stilton, it to be had good and mild . . . God bless you and yours...
Although many normally observant Jews, driven by the meat shortage, were eating pork, most of them felt uneasy about it. Said Legislator David Ha'Cohen, a member of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's party: "I don't keep a kosher kitchen in my home, but to see Jews ordering pork chops in butchers' shops licensed by the Jewish state hurts something deep inside...
This week, the orthodox Agudat Israel Party has a bill before the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to ban all sales of pork to Jews. Other Knesset members discussed importing more kosher meat on the free market; they were confident that the sale of pork would then dwindle...