Word: hoof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Imposed by Congress nominally because of the hoof and mouth disease, it helps keep Argentine beef out of the U. S., a protection for which U. S. beef producers are grateful...
...revenue, also, your papers have not been doing so well. ... A special problem for you has been created by your present attitude toward union labor. . . . When, however, your own reporters and editors tried to improve the condition by forming a perfectly legal and orthodox trade union, you fought them hoof and claw. ... It is hard to resist a conclusion that you are in favor of trade unions when they are already strong and can beat you in a fair fight, but opposed to them when you think they are crushable." No news is one more attack on Publisher Hearst...
Since corn is the staple hog diet, "corn on the hoof" (i.e., hogs) last week rose too. Headlines read: RETURN OF THE $12 HOG. As corn passed wheat, it became too dear to feed hogs, whose diet was thereupon switched to wheat, which is a better meat-builder, anyway...
...striated with layers of green and white beneath the red. To approximate the colors with which pious artisans glorified God at Chartres and Poitiers, Artist Saint has cooked up messes of egg-yolk, hollyhock, calendula and portulaca. To get a certain yellow, Mr. Saint boiled a cow's hoof, as a medieval manuscript directed. So noisome was the process that Artist Saint had to yell for his sons to carry the bubbling hellbroth away...
According to Government figures, cattle & calves on the hoof totaled 60,667,000 last Jan. 1, as against 68,290,000 one year before, a decrease of 11%. Within the same twelvemonth Drought and AAA's corn-hog program reduced the number of hogs 35%, from 57,177,000 to 37,007,000, smallest in 50 years. Sheep and lambs, least affected by Drought, were down some 5% to 49,766,000 last January. Out of proportion to these decreases in supply were the increases in price paid by the packer. Hogs that cost...