Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This continuing cost-price squeeze on agriculture chilled but did not demolish the optimism that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson has been displaying about farm prospects. Benson still insists that farmers stand to average somewhat higher prices and incomes than in 1956. Buttressing his opinion were some hopeful facts. Hog and cattle prices are better than last year; the broiler industry appears to be overcoming a surplus problem, and dairymen are producing and selling more than last year. The Government's price-depressing hoard of surplus wheat, cotton and corn is slowly being whittled away. And this year farmers...
Frantic city fathers, merchants and clergymen called hand-wringing emergency town meetings. Manager Edwards appeared at many of the sessions, waving a pocket slide rule. He argued that Bayonne was living too high off the hog; e.g., it has 13.3 municipal employees per 1,000 residents, against a national average...
Another source of ACTH is the tiny hog pituitaries (generally used in the U.S.), but it takes half a dozen of them to make a single average medical dose. The worldwide demand for the hormone is now so great that many manufacturers are turning to the far larger whale glands -the size of an egg. Melville's pelagic Cain now helps to supply doctors with a valued treatment for at least 30 diseases, from common and crippling rheumatoid arthritis to scleroderma...
...early scenes, the camera roots like an indifferent hog through a heap of white trash in the Deep South. In a rotting mansion on the Mississippi flats, in an upstairs room filled with dolls and hobbyhorses and empty Coke bottles, a ripe-bodied young woman lies curled in a wrought-iron crib and sucks her thumb as she sleeps. This is Baby Doll Carson McCorkle ¶Carroll Baker), who "had a great deal of trouble with long division . . . and never got past the fourth grade." In the next room a balding, slack-jowled, middle-aged man, still dressed in frowsty...
...blend inextricably into what irreverent teammates have been known to call "the vaudeville act of O'Brien and O'Brien." The show begins with Parry snarling around the track, sinking into what he calls his "competitive trance," beneath which lies the quick temper of a scalded hog. When the spirit moves him, he snatches up the shot in his left hand, licks the fingers of his right hand and rubs the saliva on the back of his neck. This is not superstition. The thin lamination of moisture is meant to keep the shot from clinging an instant...