Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trucks lug thousands of gallons of milk in their stainless steel bellies, to plants where it is turned to butter and cheese, or condensed and powdered for storing. In Iowa, where more than 2,000,000 sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...
Wealthiest Swede since Kreuger, Axel Wenner-Gren is a mysterious globetrotter, one of the last of the international capitalists. He built his fortune on wood pulp, aviation, munitions (Bofors), vacuum cleaners and refrigerators (Servel, Inc.). Since 1939 he has lived on Hog Island (near Nassau) on a magnificent estate called Shangri-La. He is an intimate of the Duke of Windsor. Two months ago he left Peru, where he had sponsored an archeological expedition, and arrived in Mexico, where he said he intended to "engage in economic activities...
...neutrality of the Argentine Republic ... or its friendly relations with other countries," the pro-Axis newspaper Pampero discontinued its anti-U.S. cartoons. But irrepressible Horn carried a social note: "Monday morning von Thermann visited Castillo," embellished the story with a cartoon of Thermann's head on a hog plastered with swastikas...
...ships of the Maritime Commission are as durable as the Hog Islanders of World War I, much more finely equipped and finished, and a lot more economical. Divided into eight watertight compartments, they will stay afloat even when a quarter flooded, are fitted with gun supports and housings for submarine-detection apparatus. The gun supports are as handy as Jerry Land knew they would be. Arming C-ships (see cut, p. 71) against U-boats is no trick...
...Rinehart; $5). Like all scientists who have pillaged foreign flora for the profit of U.S. agriculture, Goodspeed and his staff had no easy time. They slept in huts tumbling with guinea pigs, which Peruvians keep as pets. They rode along precipices on dynamite trucks. They broke the ice in hog troughs to wash their morning faces...