Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wild nowhere land, with a hero never emasculated by romance, a vision of death, or whole-hog brutality, it doesn't seem incredible. In fact, it's rather nice...
Chicago grew rich as the Midwest's hog butcher, and has fattened as "the convention capital of the U.S." As a centrally located air, rail, and highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site...
...come and go"' that is, the timbers shrink in the dry winter air, expand when put back in the water. As a result, hulls can warp, fittings are sometimes sheared. Secondly, the cradle in which a boat rests may not fit properly and thet boat will tend to "hog," that is, sag at both bow and stem...
...decrease in farm prices." The others understood that I was glad to see pork prices moderate from an abnormal high of $30 per hundredweight, or 122% of parity, for the reason that if the price had remained long at such a level it would have resulted in overproduction of hogs, a glutted market, and ultimately depressed prices to hog producers. Precipitous increases and declines in farm prices are always damaging...
...Including power tools, die presses, diesel engines, certain metals and industrial chemicals-as well as corset stays and hog troughs, firemen's hats and bathtub stoppers, arsenic and lace, popcorn and canned hominy...