Word: fattener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared that Congress was to blame for not passing the kind of OPA bill he had asked; producers for withholding cattle "to fatten their profits." But "the real blame," he cried, "lies at the door of the reckless group of selfish men who, in the hope of gaining political advantage, have encouraged sellers to gamble on the destruction of price control. . . . This same group has opposed every effort of this Administration to raise the standard of living and increase the opportunity for the common...
...Kansas, the Republican nomination for governor fell to able Representative Frank Carlson, congressional tax expert. His November opponent: Harry H. Woodring, ex-Secretary of War, whose lambasting of state dry laws may fatten the normally slim chances of a Kansas Democrat...
Many U.S. occupation officers half-envied General Fatten. Their troubles were just beginning...
...Example: in the summer of 1943 the ceiling price on corn was so low and the price floor on hogs so high that it was more profitable to use corn to fatten pigs than to sell it. Result: a large hog population, but no pork on the butcher's rack and an acute shortage of feed for Eastern dairy cows.) Weather Means Everything. With farm groups last week - at Omaha, Min neapolis, Yakima, Wash. - Anderson made a highly favorable, sense-making impression, discussing how to work out a sys tem of price relationships that would provide incentives...
...best calculated measures of the new Secretary of Agriculture can still be badly upset by acts of God. If the corn crop is very short, it will be impossible to fatten enough cattle and hogs, even if prices make fattening profitable-light beef of inferior quality may be forced on the market when ranges dry up. Conversely, if the weather continues wet and the corn fails to harden before frost, there may be so much soft corn, unfit for storage, that too many cattle will be kept on that cheap feed instead of going to market...