Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME there is a discussion of Aberdeen-Angus cattle in which the breed is described as the "most upstart of all U. S. cattle breeds." If by this phrase the writer meant that the Aberdeen-Angus was the latest of the recognized beef breeds to become established in the U. S., the statement is true; but so far as concerns Scotland, which is the birthplace of the breed, there are legal documents to show that there were black polled cattle in Aberdeenshire over 400 years ago, in 1523 (Macdonald & Sinclair's "History of Aberdeen-Angus Cattle...
...point is that the Aberdeen-Angus breed has its origin in "time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," and is the carrier of dominant characteristics of a kind desirable in a breed of beef cattle, intensified by a longer period of breeding like to like than is the case with other beef breeds...
...still clung to the principle of civil liberties could not accept it in detail. The South and Central American States were ready to trade their coffee, rubber, ores for U. S. money and machinery-but the U. S. could not take any of their cotton or much of their beef. That left the unrebuked dictatorships like Germany to continue bartering in South and Central America with aski marks...
...first International Live Stock Exposition. Advance won the title of Grand Champion Steer. As this year's gaily bedecked, heavily disinfected show opened last week in the brick-&-cement International Amphitheatre at Chicago's Union Stock Yards, Farmer Pierce was again on hand. Watching his best beef cattle collect only three prizes (a 4th, a 5th, a 13th), he mused sadly that Advance had won in "an easy walkaway" against heavier, higher, bigger and older animals. Then he waited, with the other cattle-conscious spectators squeezed into the Amphitheatre, for a decision on the championship his steer once...
...front man for a U. S. feudal barony is a job that gives Dick Kleberg plenty of work. For despite certain indications of independence, King is very much a part of the U. S. Its stake in politics may be judged by the fact that a if decline in beef prices shaves $200,000 from the King profits that year, that taxes have more than once exceeded the King payroll...