Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slaughter from 51,000,000 to 52,000,000 head of hogs, up 12% from 1941's expected hog slaughter of 46,000,000 head...
Pourboire. In a hog yard in Macomb, Ill., a man dropped a wallet containing $43 in bills and a $10 check. The hogs ate the wallet, left...
...going to wake them up was Claude Raymond Wickard, generalissimo of the U.S. forces in the Battle of Food. He is a 48-year-old Indiana hog farmer. As Secretary of Agriculture he has the most widely developed system of alarm in the history of the earth: his 101,000 agents can personally reach 6,000,000 farmers in the U.S. within 48 hours. And within this week or next, every one of them will be reached...
...mining the soil-not farming it." He began experimenting. Heedless of neighbors' alarms that he would kill the soil forever, he strewed phosphorus on the fields. He did nothing but farm, talked only about farming. His horizon stretched as far as he could see from his hog pastures; no farther...
...July 1933 the corn-hog problem was a big chunk of the whole farm problem. Wickard became a member of a committee representing the corn-hog States, talked so earnestly in Des Moines that Al G. Black, then head of the Department's corn-hog section, was impressed. He asked Wickard to come to work in Washington...