Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caldwell's Hog Wallow Sirs: . . . Erskine Caldwell is seizing upon an isolated instance or two of injustice to tenant farmers by Jefferson County landowners to paint the county as a sink of iniquity. As a damyankee of many generations standing, I cannot be accused of rushing to the defense of my native State. But by profession trained to accurate observation and impartial reporting, and speaking from six years' intimate familiarity with Jefferson County, I can say that a more contemptible libel has never been uttered about any community...
Meat prices jumped on the first Drought scare last summer but housewives brought the rise to a quick halt in September by stubbornly refusing to buy. Now that the beef and hog shortage is really a market factor meat prices are again climbing. The supply of fresh butter has dwindled so rapidly that dealers are drawing from storage 1,000,000 Ib. daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from...
...Still hog-tied by Japan's militarists, the Empire's peace-minded politicians last week tried to upset the jingo Cabinet of Premier Admiral Okada by exploding a bomb of scandal. They blew up the previous Cabinet by the same tactics, proved embezzlement on "subordinates" of sly old Finance Minister Takahashi (TIME, July 16). Although the old fox is again Finance Minister, for the seventh time, and although the new Cabinet is again riding them, the timid but persistent politicians last week maneuvered blunt War Minister General Hayashi into serious admissions...
...company was also short, had fluctuated violently. Soon the company found itself being slowly squeezed to death by a world-wide shortage of oils and fats which was aggravated when cottonseed oil output in the U. S. was cut by cotton acreage reduction, lard output by the corn-hog program, beef tallow by the Drought...
...trains, he founded Lionel Corp., produced a locomotive, coach and caboose operated by a dry battery for $6. Today, 35 years later, Lionel electric trains start, stop and reverse by remote control. One of President Cowen's prides is the fat 400E, a standard (2¾ in.) "hog," which, with tender, measures 30½ inches and sells...