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Such tasty bait as this, Wall Streeters hoped, would sooner or later lure in the public. They had some pious arguments in favor of it: a big bull market, for one thing, would not only fatten brokers' commissions, but would permit industry to raise some of the capital, through stock issues, that it badly needs for expansion. One simple recipe, favored by both Schram and Truslow to attract more investors: cut margins...
This year Elliott is planting alfalfa, clover, oats and corn, enough to fatten 100 steers a year. He has built up his flock of chickens until they are producing 1,700 eggs a day, and plans to add turkeys and capons. Along with the milk, cream and butter from 45 Guernseys, the eggs and chickens are sold to wholesalers in nearby towns...
...Gunderson thinks that the statewide campaign will cost nearly half a million dollars for DDT alone. But freedom from flies will make livestock fatten faster, increase the milk yield, improve public health. "Besides," he says, "what's a man's Sunday morning sleep worth to him when there's a fly in the room...
There were heavy crop losses elsewhere. Tens of thousands of sheep and cattle had been destroyed. The prolonged, heavy snows had cost Britain two-thirds of her stock of young hill sheep (those which graze on the uplands and are later sent to the lowlands to fatten). In the lowlands 1,000,000 head had been lost. To wool-weaving, meat-hungry Britain that meant another crisis. The people were going to need every bit of stoicism they could muster...
...plan, the object of which is to level the standard of living of Americans to that of the European peasant. . . . The starvation and death of several million Europeans is more to be desired than our contribution of $400 million to an international relief fund which would be used to fatten up the Balkan armies so they might be in a position to spit on us and thus start World...