Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood is a cancer expert who always "goes the whole hog" on what excites him. Last week he arranged to blarney & bully the fear out of his patients. This is a recent reversal of Dr. Bloodgood's clinical attitude. Heretofore he has preached: get an early diagnosis, no matter if you must scare the wits out of the people. Anti-cancer propaganda has had a fear motif, condoned only for its salutary effect on a supposedly ignorant, obtuse public...
...certificates, negotiable, would have fixed values as follows: wheat 42? per bu.; cotton 5? per lb.; tobacco 4? per lb.; hogs 2? per lb. After harvest the farmer would sell his full crop in the open market. Thereupon the Treasury would step in and collect as an excise tax 42? from millers on every bushel of wheat they bought for flour, 5? from spinners on every pound of cotton, 4? from cigaret & cigar manufacturers on every pound of tobacco, 2? from meat packers on every pound of hog. Thus special treasury funds would be created out of which the Secretary...
...Every good farmer should raise hogs, year in and year out," says Fred F. Devore of Omaha. Last week he thought he had found a way to aid the cashless farmer, help him build up a registered breeding herd. No philanthropist, he expects his newly-formed Pure-Bred Hog Development Association to line the pockets of himself & associates as well as the farmers...
...farmer of good character and proven hog-raising ability the Association will furnish as many pure-bred sows as he can accommodate. From each of the first two litters of each sow, two pigs must be returned to the Association when they have grown to 200 Ib. or more. The farmer then becomes half owner of the sow. With eight piglets saved from each litter, he should have a 12½-pig-per-sow return on his investment of care and feed...
Thus Chancellor von Papen hog-tied the Prussian Free State to the German Federal Government but left bald Dr. Braun loose as Premier of Prussia...