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Exactly what made the clans so extravagantly unfriendly is open to conjecture. Maybe Randolph McCoy was sore at a Hatfield for stealing a razorback hog. Maybe he was angry at his daughter Rose Anne, pregnant by Johnse Hatfield after a frolic in 1880, for moving, unmarried, into the Hatfield compound. Or maybe the cause was the packs of Hatfields who crossed the Tug Fork and went swaggering around the Kentucky election grounds. Whatever the reason, the furies were unambiguously loosed on a whisky-sodden day 100 years ago next August. One of McCoy's sons taunted an unarmed Ellison...
...Tasco Inc., a Shell Rock, Iowa, builder of hog barns, grew rapidly during the 1970s and saw its employment rolls swell...
...cost of carrying Tasco's debt load escalated as the company frantically borrowed money from one lender in order to pay off another. At the same time Tasco's hard-pressed farmer customers, equally strapped for cash, began to postpone building plans and cancel orders for hog sheds. With debts of $8.5 million and assets of only $1.2 million, the company filed for bankruptcy last spring and is now in receivership...
...workable buildings). Real populist architecture has no chance. Within the taste centers, Wolfe says, "there was no way for an architect to gain prestige through an architecture that was wholly unique or specifically American in spirit." What was this spirit, this ignored Zeitgeist? Tailfins and Empire: "the Hog-stomping Baroque exuberance of American civilization." Those who did serve it were banished as apostates, and become the heroes of Wolfe's narrative: John Portman, Morris Lapidus, Eero Saarinen and Edward Durell Stone...
Naturally, some boats in the race will be faster than others. As the faster ones pass the slower ones, the slower crews are supposed to move to the right. Ulrich said that while there usually aren't many glaring infractions, "in the heat of battle, someone will hog the lane...