Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American flag tonnage (dry cargo vessels) in foreign trade was about 3,200,000 tons, and it is estimated that if we carried 50% of our foreign commerce, we would require only 5,800,000 tons. On this basis, can anyone contend that the Americans are trying to "hog" the shipping of the world, when we know that foreign flag lines in the year 1938 operated about 21,000,000 tons in the U.S. foreign trade, of which over 8,000,000 tons were employed in liner services...
...nations, concludes Author Stewart, can boast a nomenclature "so definitely linked with actual men and events," or composed to such an extent by "all classes from border ruffian to Boston Brahmin." Pastoral simplicities like Seldom Seen, Possum Glory, Chicken Bristle, Hog Eye, Ticklenaked, Pokamoonshine, Stop-theJade, Bug Tussel and Pennsylvania's neighboring Intercourse and Fertility are as native and natural as those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything...
...Hog production in the Midwest is 30 to 40% less than a year ago, despite a bumper crop of feed corn. The reason: the price of corn is fixed too high in relation to the fixed price of hogs...
Saga of the Pork Chop. Early in the war, when Government agencies asked the farmers to raise more hogs, they were promised a reasonable profit. To make sure they got it, OPA clamped a ceiling on the price of corn (averaging $1.07) and WFA put a floor price of $13.75 cwt. under the hog market...
...feasted on a temporary glut of pork. But this year the March slaughter of hogs was slightly less than 3.5 million v. 7 million last March. Last week in Chicago, hog receipts were less than 43,000 v. 129,000 for the similar week last year. Packers complained that this was the lowest in eight years. Too late, OPA last week timidly raised the support price...