Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tired of going to the stores and supermarkets and seeing these reciependents fill their baskets with the best cuts of meats etc, load them in Cadilacs and expensive cars and I and other peninsors having to shop around for pork neck bones, chicken necks, hog maws etc while they these Government reciependents load their baskets with the best cuts of meat and the like. CRIME--is another thing that needs immediately attention--it is absolutely unsafe to walk down some of the streets here (Gainesville, Florida) in broad Daylight...
...little movement or noise on the dirt streets under a baking midday sun. The sugar season has just begun, so the men lucky enough to have jobs are swinging machetes in the canefields or working in the Aguirre sugar mill. Toddlers amble about shoeless and bottomless, a black hog wanders out of an alley to confront a tethered goat, and idle teen-age boys chat quietly in small groups. Most of the tiny houses are made of scrap metal and salvage lumber. People have two dreams: to own a concrete house and to win big in the lottery...
...Lord God, we don't know why in Your wisdom, You been so doggone good to us. The Chinee don't have chili, ever. The Frenchmens is left out. The Rooshians don't know no more about chili than a hog does about a sidesaddle. Even the Meskins don't get a good whiff of it unless they stay around here. Chili eaters is some of Your chosen people...
...Middle West this week to visit his heartland supporters. In Des Moines, he was to attend the Iowa State Fair (setting for the book and two movies called State Fair), where farmers were celebrating impending record harvests of corn and wheat. After touring 4-H exhibits, cattle barns and hog pens. Ford was to outline his farm policy to fairgoers in the main grandstand. His speech was to be wedged in among the regular acts, including country musicians, hog callers and the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show...
...Rising grain prices. In response to the lower U.S. crop forecasts and early Soviet buys, grain and meat prices on the nation's futures markets are continuing to climb. Quotations for wheat and corn last week rose 5%; hog futures, a prime indicator of the anticipated price of corn, hit a record $1.05 per Ib. Agriculture Department experts think American farmers are holding some crops in storage waiting for still higher quotes, and these experts hope that release of the food will push prices down later this year. Meanwhile, though, retail food prices in June rose at an annual...