Time Clock, Nov. 12, 1956

PORK PRICES will be boosted by new Government buying program. Including current lard purchases, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will make $100 million available immediately to buy pork for school-lunch programs and other nonprofit uses. As result, pork prices, which had slipped below $15 per hundredweight for first time since March, spurted ahead last week to $15.50 per hundredweight.

EBBETS FIELD, longtime home of Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball Club, will be turned into $25 million housing development. For an estimated $2,000,000, Dodgers have sold Ebbets Field to Manhattan Real-Estateman Marvin Kratter, associated with Financier...

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