Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profited heavily from the Depression. It is they and their henchmen who are doing their best to foment city people against the farmer and the farm program. It is that type of political profiteer who seeks to discredit the vote in favor of a continued corn-hog program by comparing your desire for a fair price for the farmer to the appetite of hogs for corn. . . . "The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to deal swiftly with kidnappers, gangsters and racketeers. That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to save innocent...
...cotton and corn-hog restriction programs for next year were last week announced by AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis. Their prime points...
...Farmers must agree to reduce their cotton plantings 30% to 45% below "normal," their corn plantings 10% to 30%. They need not reduce the number of hogs they raise, must merely agree not to raise more than the normal number. So that AAA cannot in future be charged with paying men for raising nothing whatever, cotton farmers must raise at least 50% of their normal crop, corn farmers 25%, hog raisers...
...Farmers are guaranteed for 1936 not less than 5? a Ib. for cotton they do not raise. 35? a bu. for corn they do not raise, $1.25 for each hog they do raise. Every hog over their quota will cost them...
...write effective theatre music, subduing atonality and the twelve-tone scale to a truly urgent feeling. Critics were unable to agree on Lulu's worth last week. Olin Downes of the New York Times pronounced it "involved trash," while Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune went the whole hog in the other direction by saying: "The layman, if he can accustom himself to a doubtless indisposing idiom, will find in it a lacerating beauty, a piercing expressiveness often overwhelming which reveals Berg for what he is: a poet, a man of tormenting sensibility...