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...that gave the spectacular example of supply & demand. In the first day of free trade at the Chicago stockyards, prime beef jumped to $22 a hundredweight (OPA ceiling: $18), hogs were up to $18.50 (ceiling: $14.85). Then the farmers, hurrying to cash in on the high prices, began to pour in cattle by the thousand. One day alone brought in 20,000 hogs, greatest number in six months...
...effect of the grass-fed beef which will soon start moving off the ranges. The big packers were still buying little. They were afraid of losing their subsidies if OPA comes back. And they intended to wait for the lower prices that would surely come if cattle continued to pour...
Things were so bad that Mohandas Gandhi devoted his weekly day of silence, when he usually gets a rest from the questions*that pour in from all over India, to fuming and fretting over the big question of Congress cooperation in an interim government...
Nonscheduled carriers cried that this was a rate war to drive them out of business. It would not be so much a war as a massacre. Most nonscheduled carriers operate on a shoe string; American had millions to pour into the fight...
...name of the Polish female youth I take this oath, oh God! . . . We shall move the world, the hearts of nations, of politicians and statesmen even. For this aim we shall offer what we hold dear: womanish traits of goodness and mildness. We shall become soldiers who fight, who pour blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...