Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sargon's Bull. No great number of Chicagoans, even of the select 300 who attended the Oriental Institute's opening, could begin to comprehend the myriad minute implications of the million-&-one mummies, skeletons, sculptures, potteries, cuneiform tablets and other miscellaneous objects with which the new building was nearly packed. Yet even an early Swift or Cudahy would have understood and taken solid satisfaction from Dr. Breasted's prize exhibit - a monster, 40-ton stone bull, set up in the main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this...
While a monster bull from Assyria was exciting admiration on one side of Chicago last week (see p. 23) a chunky little steer from New York was being admired on another side of town, at the annual International Livestock Exposition in Union Stockyards. He was Briarcliff Thickset, a glossy Aberdeen Angus eleven months old, whose 1,140 lb. of bone, gristle and good red meat were formed so well and in such good condition that the judges named him world's grand champion, Steer of the Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter...
...Dodge would return, but since 30 days must elapse before the withdrawal becomes effective the industry hoped that some new agreement on foreign sales might be reached, curtailment made possible. Without Phelps Dodge copper curtailment could not be accomplished. President Gates made clear that he planned to be no "bull in a china shop." Conferences continued...
Author Allen gives what he says is the first connected account of the Harding scandals, of the late lamented Bull Market. Coolidge Prosperity, the reign of ballyhoo, Babbitry, the Florida boom, the rise of the racketeer-all these are set forth in rapid, competent, factual narrative. Author Allen has "wondered whether some readers might not be interested and perhaps amused to find events and circumstances which they remember well-which seem to have happened only yesterday-woven into a pattern which at least masquerades as history." The Book-of-the-Month Club has answered his question by choosing Only Yesterday...
...Holstein National grand champion, Man O' War 30th with his breeder, Walter Schmidt of Minnesota, at the leadstrap, and to read your description of the National Dairy Exposition in the Oct. 26 TIME. Pansy caught your fancy; how about King Bessie Mabel Susie, another well-known young bull of this breed entered at the National but not exhibited...