FOOD: Burial in Vermont

To Vermont's rock-ribbed Republicans, it was just another example of New Deal bungling. To the War Food Administration the Great American Egg Problem was not the least bit funny.

Last week the Burlington, Vt. WFA office received nine carloads of overripe eggs. After brooding a bit, the WFA officials figured that the simplest way to dispose of the nearly two million bad eggs would be to bury them beyond the town limits of South Burlington. They hired a bulldozer, dumped five carloads into a gully, and covered the yolky quagmire with a thin...

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