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What to look for is uranium's radioactivity. The best loker is the portable Geiger counter, which finds uranium under the ground as a hog smells out truffles. The prospector carries it over the hills, poking into crevices. In his earphones he hears a few clicks stirred up by cosmic rays and normal earth radioactivity. If the clicks come faster, his heart generally beats faster too. If they swell to a roar, he may be near a uranium bonanza...
Earhay eyay! earhay eyay! With this clarion call, Dunster House summoned all students of the ancient and honorable language of pig-latin to the first meeting of its pig-latin dining table tonight, while the nearby Spanish mesa showed its disgust at the swinish attempt to hog student support...
...already doing a man's work. But despite Teo's help, Pier had to mortgage the farm again. Pier was hardworking and resourceful, but he was also bullheaded. In the early '303, he refused to join his neighbors in the New Deal's corn and hog program. In 1936, the great dust storms ruined him. ("Fool. Such a fool. Man assumes that the soil is eternal. It is not. . . ."). Neglected and sick for years, Nertha died...
Cheer in the Cupboards. In high hog prices, the U.S. was paying for the post-OPA stampede of pigs to market last fall. The hog crop was so depleted then that pork would remain relatively scarce until May. There was a good prospect of $1-a-Ib. pork chops-if anyone would buy them. But there was no reason why anyone should; there was plenty of other lower-priced food to eat. The Department of Agriculture was actually worried because there was so much food in cold storage. Example: there were 140 million Ibs. of turkeys in cold storage...
...Road Hog. In Baekke, Denmark, a befuddled autoist honked impatiently behind an auto wrecker that hogged the road for 12½ miles, later protested angrily to the salvage company, learned to his chagrin that he was the drunk the wrecker had been towing home...