Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uninspected barnyard slaughterhouses, the seller might suggest to the buyer: "Bet you $100 you can't hit the barn door with your hat at 100 yards...
Back of the Barn. The public swiftly caught on to every unethical trick. The man who wanted a new automobile in a hurry, but had no car to trade in, knew that some dealer would sell him a secondhand car at $800 and then take it back in trade at $400. The OPA was virtually helpless against the racket in autos. It caught some little fish (some of them several times), but snagged few really big ones...
...lumber-running-on the highways outside San Antonio and Austin, Tex., there is lively bidding each night at $1,200 for big truckloads of lumber worth $720 at ceiling prices. In almost every rural area, war veterans with priorities bought new tractors, sold them back of'the barn at $500 profit. In Florida, cement building blocks (ceiling 17?) had a current black-market price...
...years ago, in New York State's horsy Saratoga Springs, the thoroughbred bug bit Elizabeth Arden. She bought a $1,000 yearling race horse named How High, and hired not so high (5 ft.) Clarence Buxton as trainer. Elizabeth Arden, who had no children, fluttered out to her barn, talked baby talk to her first horse, spoiled him. They parted company because Trainer Buxton treated him like a horse...
Maternity Ward. There begin long, sleepless nights during which Gus Kuester may pace the center aisle of the farrowing barn like an expectant father. Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer...