Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Government figures, cattle & calves on the hoof totaled 60,667,000 last Jan. 1, as against 68,290,000 one year before, a decrease of 11%. Within the same twelvemonth Drought and AAA's corn-hog program reduced the number of hogs 35%, from 57,177,000 to 37,007,000, smallest in 50 years. Sheep and lambs, least affected by Drought, were down some 5% to 49,766,000 last January. Out of proportion to these decreases in supply were the increases in price paid by the packer. Hogs that cost...
...clear that "this trip is of our own planning" and a South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore Roosevelt." Recovering the fumble, the Secretary of Agriculture blushingly explained that "in 1912 I was a Bull Mooser myself." Any forensic slip the Secretary might have made was forgotten when he began assailing...
...Distributed benefit payments for crop reduction of $225,000,000 to cotton farmers, $162,000,000 to wheat farmers, $31,000,000 to tobacco growers, $253,500,000 to corn-hog raisers, $6,000,000 to sugar growers. Total...
...University of California at Los Angeles 1,500 students gathered, in a vacant lot off the campus, watched pacifist speakers and antipacifist hog-callers try to outshout each other. A few miles away, at Los Angeles Junior College, 25 peace demonstrators mounted the library steps, started to harangue a few hundred followers. College officers first tried to drown them out by roaring into microphones of the campus public address system. Next Director Roscoe...
...superb talent Caldwell has. Give him a single stink and he can create a magnificent hog wallow, a singularly appropriate gift for those...