Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arena was crowded as Judge Biggar watched beef on the hoof waddle by. Among the 750 was many a Hereford, returned to prominence. Finally the Biggar cane, at last removed from the Biggar arm pointed to a sleek fat Hereford from Texas, named Texas Special. Owner William Largent of Merkel, Tex., let out a whoop...
...meat were formed so well and in such good condition that the judges named him world's grand champion, Steer of the Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter house. A Pennsylvania packing company bought him for $1.27 per lb. on the hoof, lowest price paid for Steer of the Year since 1923.* Nevertheless, in more ways than one Briarcliff Thickset made history. His breeder and owner was not a Midwestern cattleman but a retired New York financier, Oakleigh Thorne of Pine Plains, N. Y. And not in 31 years had an Eastern...
Beef on the Hoof...
...more fortunate than the Vagabond, he cannot furnish his den with live or stuffed specimens. In the first place the subjects might object and in the second place too much of a good thing is too much. And so he must content himself with examining his objects "on the hoof...
President Hoover's mind was full of meat last week. The National Live Stock & Meat Board invited him to review a "steaks-hams-chops-on-the-hoof" parade in Chicago the day after he dedicates the new Lincoln Memorial at Springfield. The parade was to advertise the "critical situation" in low livestock prices. As it always does at this season, the Public Health Service advised the country to eat less meat during the summer. Immediately President Hoover was bombarded with protests from meat producers. The Kansas Livestock Association wired: "Such propaganda evidently prompted by food faddists and cannot...