Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of all this, the average U. S. diet has plenty of room for improvement, especially in some southern rural districts where the people still live mainly on hog and corn. In a survey made from 1934 to 1937, says Dr. Cummings, "out of every hundred families throughout the country, only 23 enjoyed diets which, from the nutritional standpoint, were good; 51 had diets which were fair; and 26 followed poor diets...
...economic disaster and fascism at home the only alternative to whole-hog intervention? It is, if we attempt to struggle on as we have done, trying to bolster up a capitalistic system which is running down. But there is another alternative. Boldly and fearlessly we can grapple with the problem of giving Americans--all Americans--jobs and an adequate living standard. This does not mean half-baked public spending programs sabotaged by "lack of confidence." It means taking the vast productive machinery of this country out of the hands of the Girdlers and Fords, and putting it to work...
Keeping his 1,200 artists, animators, sound engineers and helpers mum, Walt Disney started work, soon got the machinery of his new $3,000,000 Burbank, Calif, studio rolling on Fantasia. Deciding to go the whole artistic hog, they picked the highest of high-brow classical music. To do right by this music, the old mouse opera comedy was not enough. The Disney studio went high-brow wholesale, and Disney technicians racked their brains for stuff that would startle and awe rather than tickle the audience...
Across Iowa's rich checkerboard of farm lands, men shucked the last of the hog-fattening corn, shaved the empty yellowed stalks from their fields, plowed the brown earth...
...Streeters, handsome, bushy-haired Matt Brush symbolized the bygone Terrific Twenties. A born speculator, Brush went east from Kansas to make a fortune. His financial strategy first made him director of the dilapidated Boston "L"; some 50 other companies by 1929. During World War I he managed the great Hog Island Shipyard. A confirmed bachelor until 56, he then married his 33-year-old secretary. His hobby: collecting 2,000 model elephants, some as big as dogs, others as small as doodlebugs...