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Young claims that his battle cry that "A hog can cross the country without changing trains-but you can't!" had forced the railroads to start the first through transcontinental service. He had sounded off about a lot of things that people had been putting up with and not liking-the block-selling of Pullman space (by which big companies often tied up space they did not use), old-fashioned sleeping cars ("rolling tenements"). He had pulled his roads out of the venerable Association of American Railroads ("that broken-down lobby") and this month will...
...suits for back pay rose to billions, the C.I.O.'s legal counsel, Lee Pressman, admitted that the whole business had got out of hand.* Cried he: "They are fantastic. Local lawyers have gone hog-wild. Suits for those incredible sums have fanned the flames of anti-unionism...
...TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
Coach Kopp's men will be anxious to prevent a repeat of the first performance when both teams hog-tied their opponents defensively. A fast break may perhaps be unveiled tonight by the Crimson in an effort to upset the shore patrollmen's tight formations...
Trichinellae are usually transmitted to humans by infested pork, where they lie in wait coiled up in little cysts. When such pork is eaten (by a man or a hog) without thorough cooking, the cysts dissolve; the liberated worms mate and multiply in the intestines. The young worms wriggle into the lymphatic ducts, migrate to the muscles, and enclose themselves in cysts. One meal of improperly cooked infested pork is enough to start trichinosis...