Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hog raisers know what happened to hogs last year," said Benson. "They were selling for 16? a pound a year ago -only 77% of parity. There was some agitation for hog supports then. But Secretary Brannan at that time didn't think supports were feasible . . . What did farmers do when they knew there would be no price supports . . .? You bred 12% fewer sows for spring farrow this year-5% fewer sows for fall farrow. And hog prices bounced back quickly. Some of you sold hogs here in Chicago this week for $24 . . . Doesn't this make a pretty...
...While Ezra Taft Benson has raised plenty of dust among some farmers with that kind of philosophy, he was talking the right language to the Farm Bureau, the largest (1,626,632 families) farm organization in the U.S. For six years the Farm Bureau's president, an Iowa hog farmer named Allan Kline, has been arguing for flexible price supports. Kline subscribes to the theory that farmers would gear their production to supply and demand rather than to Government bounty if support prices ranged from 75% of parity when a crop is in surplus to 90% of parity when...
...review brings to mind a comment from a teacher (in Texas) about some children from California schools, which have gone, to put it mildly, hog-wild over modern education: "They're pretty weak on the fundamentals-they can't spell, and they don't write legibly ; they can't read well, and they don't know much about arithmetic. But they're beautifully adjusted-they just know that they know everything...
...Baptists took it over for a trifling $300,000 (current evaluation: about $11,000,000 ), and converted it into one of the most luxurious church centers in the U.S.: an 81 -room hotel was already standing, the "largest barn in Wisconsin" became an 800-seat auditorium, an old hog barn became a 22-bedroom residence and dormitory. The result was a kind of apogee of the nature-loving, creature-comfortable Christianity for which the U.S. is noted. "Beauty, godliness and away-from-the-city fellowship," according to Smith, lead Green Lakers to "a closer walk with God" (in the words...
...asked to come to Manhattan to straighten out a little matter with his exwife, Marion Mill Preminger. She wants $48,800, which she claims is due her under their 1949 separation and alimony agreements. While she endures a "virtual hand-to-mouth existence," he lives high off the hog, she charged. "It is no secret that [he and his second wife] enjoy an outstanding reputation for lavishness in entertainment...