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...Butters was still a buffalo enthusiast last week. He was planning to ship two more carloads of meat to market this winter, load the rest of his herd into railroad cars and ship them 1,000 miles to his 230-acre Michigan farm. There he hoped to dehorn them, fatten them with corn, sell 100 young animals annually for meat...
Last month, when OPA drew up a tentative order for cattle ceilings and sent it to Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson for approval, cattlemen were the first to say that not even that could throw them. Feeders who buy lean cattle off the ranges and fatten them on corn promptly threatened to close out their operations. Ranchers roared that they would sell their herds, go out of business. The packers, not quite sure which side to take, said almost nothing at all, waited to see what Vinson would do. At week's end OPA waited...
...minor one: dropping eight tons of maps of Germany to Lieut. General George S. Fatten Jr.'s troops last week as they approached the Reich...
...retreat was costly; all retreats are. But none of Manstein's units was trapped; the army was battered, but it was still an army. Now Manstein wanted to fatten and rest it behind the Dnieper, build defenses, perhaps prepare a new counteroffensive...
...begun by wondering why a hen grows fat when it starts laying eggs. He proved it was because the female sex hormone, estrogen, increases the amount of fat in the blood. Lorenz then hit on the idea of giving estrogen (available in a cheap, synthetic form called diethylstilbestrol) to fatten up male fowl...