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Last week, at Gus Kuester's, that battle was in full swing and its center was the farrowing shed. For food comes off Gus Kuester's farm on four trotters and squealing like a buzz saw. Poland China and Spotted Poland China hogs are the crop to which his whole farm economy is geared. The acres of corn, the acres of oats, the acres of hay exist chiefly to cram the maws of pigs and finish about 200 hogs a year as efficiently (that is, as quickly and cheaply) as possible to meet the exigencies of marketing...
...Buzz-Bomb. In Kingston, Jamaica, when E. M. Mamby yawned, a wasp zoomed down his throat, stung a tonsil...
...embittered days Tories and Socialists had been trading blows over Labor's four-line bill to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act. The four lines packed more political dynamite than a buzz bomb. Britain's first and only general strike in 1926, the nearest it had come to violent revolution in a century (and it was not very close), had shocked the easygoing Baldwin Government into banning political strikes. For all Labor, and especially for a bellicose trades unionist named Bevin, the Act was a standing insult...
...sober, somber Council chamber was filled with the sounds of waiting: the hum-buzz of bored conversation in the gallery, the deep, snoozy breathing of weary spectators who had fallen asleep, nervous coughs, the rustling of papers. Only those with very sharp ears could hear, above these sounds in Westminster's Central Hall, the pacing footsteps of the future...
Seven months after the end of the war, their new rations seemed, to many Britons, worse than war itself. Said one suburbanite, standing in the queue before the butcher's shop: "There's been more moaning over this than over the buzz bombs...