Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Likes Hog Money Despite Odor...
...reproach among hogs to be a bit of a swine and the influence of the Corn-Hog money dispensation reflects itself very clearly in retail trade which points upward for the next several weeks. Despite a sharp decline in grain prices caused by a drop in sterling and the favorable crop reports in Canada and the Argentine, farm stocks have been very buoyant, which indicates that fodder for the farmer from the Government silo is as efficacious as high prices for his products...
...federal money at the rate of half a billion dollars a month. Whether or not the government may hold up its hands in horror at the accusation of using national funds for political purposes, the result of the vast expenditures remains the same. Public projects for the unemployed, corn-hog payments for the dissatisfied farmers, ever increasing relief funds are more formidable votegetters than reams of political speeches...
...guinea pigs, 12 turtles and two or three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of oppossums, wodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, raccoons, crayfish and sheep. Each winter the farmers of Wake-field and Reading, donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...
...President had tried to lay his hand soothingly on Business (TIME, Aug. 20), but, like a shell-shocked animal, it kept on trembling all the more. Unable to hog-call Business himself, the President dispatched his Secretary of Commerce to the microphone to swear that the "Roosevelt Administration . . . believes in just profits for management and capital" (see p. 17). But businessmen still had the jitters...