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...better days on the farm: 90% parity, more and easier credit, extension of production and marketing agreements, promotion of Eisenhower's soil bank, which Stevenson called "a good Democratic idea." To these proposals Stevenson added one of his own, pitched straight at his corn-and-hog-growing audience: special payments to hog growers to encourage early marketing and ease seasonal price fluctuations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adlai's Pitch | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...Champ. In Cucamonga, Calif., after neighbors complained that the peace was being disturbed, a constable found 77-year-old Mrs. Sarah E. Shaffstall practicing to defend her Los Angeles County Fair hog-calling championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...hog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Average Brute | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Hog raisers commonly put a boar in with a herd of fattening sows; otherwise, on coming into heat, they would rush around and wear off a lot of market-value fat. The boar pacifies them and, in the bargain, creates the main source of Releasin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pocket Gophers & Pregnancy | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...Road Hog. In Bielefeld, Germany, Motorist Georg Plaut was fined $50 for "using insulting language to fellow road users," after he rigged up an illuminated sign in his back window which flashed: SWINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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