Word: hoggish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. led the way last spring (TIME, March 21). big U.S. companies have been vying to see which could bring out the most readable financial statement, thereby prove that Big Business is not so hoggish of profits as it has been painted. Last week Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. took its turn. The nation's No. 2 maker of electrical equipment* issued a simple folder breaking down operations for the nine years 1929-1937 into one-syllable categories. Total income was $1.261.313,000. Deducting sums "paid out for materials, supplies, fuels...
...high in the Roman Hills, good-natured carabinieri in soaking wet uniforms last week kept a riotous crowd back from the public fountain. One by one they let villagers and visitors approach. One spout flowed rich red wine, the other white, and it was free for all but those hoggish enough to try to use buckets. It was the annual vintage festival, celebrated in Marino for over a thousand years...
...because his new Federal job will give him a prime chance to serve a cause to which he is passionately devoted -wild-life conservation. Hunting & fishing trips throughout the nation long ago convinced him that the U. S. was recklessly wasting its wildlife resources. Barren lands, starving ducks, hoggish gunners began to appear in his cartoons. He joined Iowa's Fish & Game Commission, became president of its Conservation Commission. Three years ago he helped launch a 25-year plan for restoring Iowa's game, gave Iowa State College $9,000 from his own pocket to develop...
Bearded professors bitterly compared their $70 a month salary with the prospective $150 monthly pay of "hoggish" second lieutenants...