Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Domestic Allotment re-emerged by administrative decree rather than by legislative enactment in a provision for the Secretary to pay "benefits" to producers contracting to cut their output. Thus the farmer who whittles down his corn land and raises fewer hogs gets a cash bonus for his reduced hog production rather than rent on his idle corn field...
...influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their six blue ribbons...
...Indiana's Governor McNutt signed a one-year moratorium whereby no property will be sold for back taxes. ¶ Iowa's Governor Herring appealed by proclamation for a halt on foreclosures until the General Assembly could act. ¶ Distressed agrarians, members of the Root Hog or Die Club, marched to St. Paul, Minn., demanded land tax reductions from Governor Olson. Their story: "We were promised years ago that the gross earnings tax would cut the levy; that the gas tax would cut the levy; that the auto tax would cut the levy. . . . These taxes have never...
During the 1933-34 crop year "minimum prices" were to be replaced by 1909-1919 farm commodity averages correlated with industrial prices over the same period, thus theoretically giving Agriculture price-parity with Industry. Sample complexity: the index figure of hog prices was to be linked with the Federal Reserve's index figure of factory employment. The excise tax on each commodity would not be stable but, at the order of the Secretary of Agriculture, would fall as prices rose, rise as prices fell...
Edited by Ballyhoo's Norman Hume Anthony, Manhattan is a 16-page sheet with a bright wrapper instead of a cover. Striking feature of the first issue was a caricature of hog-jowled Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, modeled in clay by Alan Foster (see p. 16). Pages are devoted to digests of what Manhattan newspaper colyumists, theatre and film reviewers have written during the week. There is a detailed chart of theatres, restaurants, speakeasies, etc. indicating average prices of seats, food, drinks. Also there is a series of faithful sketches of speakeasy interiors. First two subjects: Editor...