Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's beef trust performed pretty much as expected. Sam Felton threw the 35-pound weight better than 54 feet, big Geoffrey Tootell hit for 46 feet in the shot, and don Trimble took second...
Fabled Wonders. To King ranchers, big Texas talk is no bigger than the facts of their cattle kingdom: the biggest beef-producing ranch in the world. Some King-size statistics...
Tight Lip. Bob keeps a tight lip about the ranch's profits. But they can be roughly estimated. The 20 million pounds of beef sold this year should gross between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. (The ranch sells virtually all its cattle to Swift & Co. to keep from driving down prices by open sales.) Sales of breeding bulls bring in another $150,000 or so. But the expenses are huge, too. Real estate taxes run around $200,000, gasoline and oil take $48,000, land-clearing $120,000. The payroll for the 500 employees is over...
...cattlemen-the sky-high price of corn for feeding. He is one of the small percentage of U.S. cattlemen who use virtually no grain. He has the vast acreage to grass-feed his cattle the year round, and his 82,000 Santa Gertrudis cattle now give as much beef as the ranch once got from 125,000 of its English breeds. He is planning to increase his herds...
...Breeding stock as well as steers have been slaughtered. Result: the total of U.S. cattle has dropped to 76 million, down 3,000,000 in a year. This has saved grain for Europe, but it will mean much less meat for the U.S. next year. Furthermore, the production of beef, which rises and falls in a regular seven-year cycle, is now on the downgrade and will slide till...