Judge Roy Bean steer sets world beef price record
The 1250 pound Hereford named Judge Roy Bean won grand champion at the 50th International Livestock Exposition and sold for a record 13,800 dollars, equal to 11.50 a pound. Dearborn Motors Corp bought the steer, which may be shown again before final slaughter. Raised by Pecos County 4-H, the club plans to use proceeds for travel and equipment.
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War-Time Maintenance Costs Hit American Railroads
Washington reports that wartime rail usage will push maintenance and replacement costs to about two billion dollars. Charles H. Buford testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission that accelerated wear from wartime traffic left railroads under maintained and delayed in equipment replacement, with four to five hundred million more for locomotive and car replacements and about one billion dollars extra from overloading and extended service life. Despite high wartime costs, government rates were reduced, and railroads earned only a 4.6 percent return on net investment from 1941 to 1946.
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