Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Majesty dictated: "Write it plain and write it clear: No son of mine shall wed a deer." But the smart princess had already given King Clode's sons, Princes Thag, Callow and Jorn, deeds of valor to perform in rivalry for her hand-or, it might be, hoof...
...There are glimpses of black markets and worried men in Washington, of sharp practices in stores and on the range, and of the small local butcheries which have crammed quick-freeze lockers with millions of pounds of meat, much of it bought point-free, on the hoof...
Wonder Man (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is a temperate enough description of Danny Kaye in his second full-length movie. Barring Kaye, and the pretty hoof-&-mouthing of the flea-sized, dainty screen newcomer Vera-Ellen, and some sure laughs furnished by S. Z. Sakall as a delicatessen storekeeper, the picture is about as short on drive, sparkle and resourcefulness as a Sam Goldwyn production can be. But fortunately, there is no such thing as barring Danny Kaye. He is a one-man show and, at his frequent best, a howling good...
...result, he said, packers are now squeezed so tightly between high ceilings for meat on the hoof and comparatively low ceilings for meat on the butcher's block that they are losing money on every pound of pork and beef. Thus, with the greatest cattle herds roaming the ranges in U.S. history, there is no incentive for packers to slaughter them. Sadly, Thomas E. Wilson, board chairman of Wilson & Co., one of the Big Four in meatpacking, agreed. Unless something is done at once, he predicted, the Federal Government will have to take over the packing industry...
...carefully regulated the flow of cattle from the ranges to the packing centers. Result: the demand of their ancient enemy, the packers, for beef animals was always a little greater than the supply in the pens. Thus the cattlemen forced the packers to bid high for beef on the hoof. Whenever the packers shaved their prices, the cattlemen held back their shipments until prices moved up again. So long as the demand for beef was insatiable, and ranges did not dry up, the cattlemen were in the price saddle...