Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggestion of how to get some meat on U.S. tables. Boldly, Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson proposed that the Government use its war powers to rustle the ranges, buy meat on the hoof (at over-ceiling prices, if necessary), then allocate the animals to legitimate slaughterhouses...
...just about every animal that could walk or crawl. Much of that meat had been eaten, but doubtless large quantities of it had been stored by buyers who foresaw the return of ceilings and shortages. The meat which was still out in the nation's pastures on the hoof was likely to stay there for many weeks...
Pipe Dream. In Washington, the War Assets Administration had a screwy suggestion for postwar use of "The Big Inch": a route for Texas jack rabbits bound on the hoof to eastern markets...
Churchill Downs in the pre-Derby dawn is a heady place. Drifting wood smoke, dampened by morning dew, cuts the sharp, ammoniac smell of the stables. From the tarns, where skittish thoroughbreds are breakfasting, comes the metallic clank of feed tubs, or an occasional hoof thump. Sleepy-eyed grooms and exercise boys, clutching their mugs of coffee, shuffle through the shadows...
Meat packers found themselves jammed between the ceiling and the rising cost of meat on the hoof. A black market sprang up. The Government tried to fix that by giving the slaughterers' subsidies. Then it put a ceiling on livestock. Cattle raisers bemoaned high feed costs. So the Government gave them subsidies...