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...Crimson jumped into a one-run lead in the third when Jack Forte walked, moved to second on Frank Pierce's binge and role home when Mal Allen dumped a pop fly to right. From then on, however, the by were completely hog-tied by Tivnan, who allowed one man to get on for the remaining six frames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crusaders Topple Varsity With Three Tallies in Fifth | 7/26/1945 | See Source »

Corn Means Hogs. Potentially the most dangerous situation is in the corn crop, which in June cannot yet be estimated. But cold, drizzly weather has delayed planting and retarded growth. In many areas where corn usually would be knee high it was barely ankle high or not yet planted. It could still develop a fine crop or be ruined. Said Anderson, looking at the spindly young corn: "A short corn crop could be a calamity." On the corn crop will depend the prospect of meat next year, for every five pounds of corn makes a difference of about a pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Abundance--Perhaps | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...Example: in the summer of 1943 the ceiling price on corn was so low and the price floor on hogs so high that it was more profitable to use corn to fatten pigs than to sell it. Result: a large hog population, but no pork on the butcher's rack and an acute shortage of feed for Eastern dairy cows.) Weather Means Everything. With farm groups last week - at Omaha, Min neapolis, Yakima, Wash. - Anderson made a highly favorable, sense-making impression, discussing how to work out a sys tem of price relationships that would provide incentives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Abundance--Perhaps | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...mike hog-one who elbows others away from a microphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Webster | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...mechanized outfit the ist Cavalry Division left Fort Bliss in 1943, bound for the Pacific. Its commander was burly Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, a veteran spit-&-polish horse soldier ("It doesn't take a damn bit of practice to live like a hog") who made a crack record in combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: MARK OF THE FIGHTING MAN | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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