FOOD: Cash at Zero F.

With barely a glance at the weekend customers milling about the corner butcher shop, Mrs. Stanley Coultas walked into the Halliburton Cold Storage Locker Plant in Des Moines, opened her personal food locker, took out a chunk of mutton, a package of green beans. That was all she needed : her husband is in the Army, she lives alone. But against the day when her soldier comes home on furlough the 350-lb. locker is packed with good things to eat — parts of two sheep, big pieces of beef and pork, five fat...

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