Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar program, sponsored by Aiken, was passed by the 80th Congress in 1948, but has not come into operation.) In the farm belt, the president of the country's largest farm organization voiced his approval. Said Iowa Hog Farmer Allan Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation: "The program is forward looking, with principles essentially sound for the long-range welfare of American agriculture." But the plan ran head-on into formidable opposition on Capitol Hill. Some longtime students of the farm problem, e.g., Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell, argued with details of the program...
...lower center is a bloated, hog-faced cherub swilling strong drink (explains Grosz: "I come from a drinking family"). At his left, a fat-buttocked nude is grasped by a hand that protrudes from no body; below lies a soft, naked torso and legs, which Grosz says represents the memory of his mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World...
...drove up to a Thomasville undertaking parlor, swung open the back door of his new Chrysler, and told an attendant to get a "friend" out of the car. The attendant found the body of Moses Jones, a Negro, sprawled on the floor like "you would throw a dead hog." Stocky Sheriff Hill explained he had been forced to kill Jones, a prisoner who had "grabbed me and attempted to get my gun." There were no witnesses to confirm or refute the familiar story; there rarely...
TURNABOUT in farm prices in December (up 1.2% after a four-month drop) was due largely to unseasonally high hog prices. Normally, hog prices fall in December, the month of heaviest marketing, but this year hogs went to market earlier, keeping December shipments down and prices up. Market will probably stay firm until farmers bring in their big new hog crop next fall...
...percenters, the convention passed the resolution and re-elected Kline. Farm Bureau leaders thought it was a notable show of unity. Said one: "It's hard enough for a corn man and a wheat man to get along, not to mention the difference of, say, a hog man and a cotton...