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Hoarding of more than a "reasonable" supply of 55 defense-vital materials (aluminum, hog bristles, etc.) was banned...
...Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders...
...Fence Me In. The man who touched off this twin epidemic of hero-worship and product-hunger had not only done so with Howdy-Doody to left of him and Kukla, Fran & Ollie to right of him, but with little of the background which might be deemed necessary for hog-tying a whole generation. He shudders at western music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop...
...Capp's caricature of Dick Tracy), who is a dead shot and trigger-itchy, always end up perforated as neatly as so many slices of Swiss cheese. No true Abner fan (classified by Capp as a "slobbering" fan) can forget the magnificent moment when J. Roaringham Fatback, the hog tycoon, ordered Onnecessary Mountain tilted sideways with enormous jacks to keep its shadow from falling on his breakfast egg. The hovels of Dogpatch naturally sailed off into the abyss below...
...Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke petitioned the township of Hillsborough, NJ. for the right to build a piggery in which even hogs could eat high on the hog. She proposed to construct quarters for 2,500 pigs, provide the establishment with a high pressure pen-flushing system, air-conditioning units, and atomizers to keep the flies off each and every porker. Snorted a neighboring farmer: "If she grows hogs that smell good they won't be hogs...