Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wryly Nehru has admitted a basic factor in Indian life: the national symbol is the cow. To the Indians the cow is sacred because it stands for the giver of plenty, the tie of human nature to the animal and the soil, the quiet, contemplative qualities which the Eastern mind respects...
Harvest. At Hutchinson, Kans., James Redd gloomed when Cow Creek flooded his farm, brightened when he harvested $200 worth of lost balls washed from a neighboring golf course...
Meanwhile U.S. farmers have turned gardeners and dairymen in droves. Over the whole countryside big & little gardens have sprouted up, brightly painted cow-barns have been built. Truck farms now total 3,730,000 acres, up 12% over last year, up 30% over the 1931-40 average. Production of sweet corn, green peas and tomatoes is at a new high. Georgia alone has some 30,000 new gardens this year...
...pasture this year are 26,000,000 milk cows-24% more than in 1917. Thanks to better breeding and feeding, milk output per cow climbed from 3,7431b. to 4,742 lb. annually. (Really good cows average over 8,000 lb.) The U.S. now gets more cheese than it can use or ship to its allies; Agriculture Secretary Wickard recently told newsmen to put two pieces of cheese on every hunk...
...dairy husbandry at Texas A. & M. into border fighting and World War I, emerged with a D.S.C., Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Gold Star (twice). No martinet, he picked the site of Camp Hood not only for its mud and its sweaty climate, but because he liked Cow House Creek which runs through it, providing seven fine swimming holes where parboiled tankers can cool...