Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paka-Jake, needing another outlet, concentrated on clairvoyance: he could always tell that one of his more affluent neighbors was about to die in a few months. Forthwith one of the disciples would be dispatched with a warning-and a promise that Paka-Jake would intercede with the gods if the neighbor paid Paka-Jake a couple of thousand bolivianos (about $40). Sometimes he paid and sometimes not. If not, the neighbor kicked the bucket...
...raising is no cinch. But hosts of U.S. citizens now want to raise pigs, and crowds of amateurs are trying it. Thirty to 40% of U.S. pigs die before they are old enough to kill. To save more U.S. pigs for the knife, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association gave pointers...
Underfeeding sows (a common practice in the last part of pregnancy) may result in piglets which die of "baby pig disease" (shortage of blood sugar) or scours. And many farmers forget that "a sow must be fed for milk production to insure strong, thrifty pigs." Her diet must include protein, minerals, vitamins. To provide the farrow with enough copper and iron, a preparation may be placed on the sow's udder, or clean, parasite-free sod or soil placed...
...cholera is the most destructive. Symptoms are fever, loss of appetite, weakness (hog looks "lost in thought"), thirst. No cure is known, and pigs usually die within ten days. But cholera can be prevented by inoculating young pigs with anti-hog-cholera serum supplemented with a dose of the virus. Farmers should not put off immunization until cholera is reported near by: then it is too late...
...York Philharmonic, appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Opera. At the invitation of Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, he took his London Philharmonic to Germany, also conducted the Berlin Opera. Feted by leading Nazis, he met Adolf Hitler, who assured him that his favorite opera was not Die Meistersinger (as always reported by Nazi propagandists) but Franz Lehar's luscious, low-brow Merry Widow. Sir Thomas invited Hitler to visit him in England. "He said," remarked Sir Thomas later, ''that he was afraid it might put too much strain on our police force. . . . Naturally, I made...