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...county's Democratic Central Committee met there to steer its course for 1948. Perhaps no political organization has fewer inhibitions or more inner tensions than the Central Committee. Its 225 members are a rare assortment of Upton Sinclairites, Socialists, Communists, PCAsters, Hollywood leftists, Roosevelt New Dealers and Ed Pauley conservatives. Their meeting was not serene...
...peace, were better off at 1947's end than they had ever been before. Yet they were less than satisfied. One midwesterner (with possible exaggeration) wrathfully wrote his Congressman: "For one fat hog we can get a carpenter for two days. For one 14-month-old steer, at 25? a pound, we can get ten pieces of 1 x 2 inch board, 10 feet long, second quality." Though farmers complained of a squeeze by labor and industry, their prices had risen more than either of the others...
There, he dons his white leather "Wyoming lace" (chaps), climbs on a horse and pitches in. Better than anyone else on the ranch, Bob knows when a steer is as fat as it will get and should be shipped, or when a cow has begun to fail as a calf-producer and should be slaughtered. He picks the calves to be saved for breeding, marks the ones to be sold. The shipping and branding is a year-round job, with fall the busiest time. Kleberg stays on a horse "because I can make more money on a horse." His slim...
...does not think that renewed controls would increase the food supply, because "you don't get more food by restrictions." In the present atmosphere of uncertainty of what the Government intends to do about meat, cattlemen cannot plan ahead. "It takes four years to make a steer," said Kleberg. "That requires some long-range planning...
Meanwhile Rival Pridi Banomyong's man, Premier Thamrong-Nawasawat, failed to steer Siam off the postwar economic rocks. "Pridi Banomyong has soft ears," said the Siamese; self-seekers seemed able to talk him into anything. The cost of living doubled. Official corruption was almost universal...