Word: clint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only trouble with this was that Clint Anderson also promised farmers that the ceiling prices for hogs would remain the same until Sept. 1 and the subsidy for "finishing" (fattening) cattle would stay in effect until June 30. Thus, it was still more profitable to feed corn to produce meat than to sell the grain. So whether these piddling price boosts would lure much more grain off the farms was doubtful. Some experts guessed that grain prices would have to be raised somewhere in the neighborhood of from 25? to 50? a bushel to bring the grain...
...hands of an underrated opponent. In 1939 Torby Macdonald's powerhouse eleven waltzed into the Bowl to be overwhelmed 20 to 7 in a contest in which the visitors could not score until the final seconds of the game. Even more spectacular was the 13 to 6 defeat of Clint Frank's undefeated squad in 1937 by a well-coached Crimson aggregation...
...mother to Paris by her father's starchy family, she returns to New Orleans after her mother's death with her pretty teeth sharpened for revenge. She gets it by the rather oversimple expedient of making a public scandal of herself with a Texas gambler named Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper). But Clio's calculated bitchery proves too much for the simple gamblin' man who wanders in & out of her bedroom like a cow-country Casanova. He checks out for Saratoga, which seems to be full of millionaire suckers. Clio hastily settles her blackmail deal...
...Clint" Anderson's fact No. 1 has been apparent for some time. But fact No. 2 did not show up until last week, when the Department of Agriculture's July crop report was ready...
...prospect of a short crop may force Clint Anderson to postpone his plan to increase the meat supply by raising beef and pork subsidies, which would encourage the farmers to raise more cattle and hogs. He may also be forced to 1) ban the use of grains after Aug. 1 for the production of alcohol for beverages, 2) divert more wheat for animal feed...