Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubled U.S. farmer, the Agriculture Department reported happy news. Farm prices in mid-May climbed 3%, the fourth straight monthly rise and one of the biggest jumps in years. Potatoes, fruit, hogs, lamb and cattle all rose; in some areas prices for meat on the hoof were up as much as 6%. As a result the overall farm index jumped to 242% of the 1910-14 average, only two points below last year's level...
...last week, despite the peak popularity of their product, U.S. cattlemen were in the dumps. In the Kansas City stockyards, beef on the hoof sold for $14.50 a hundred pounds, near the lowest point in a decade and about 50% less than four years ago. Said Jay Taylor, past president of the American National Cattlemen's Association: "Plenty of cattlemen are going broke." Undoubtedly many ranchers who jumped in to make a quick killing when prices were sky-high were being hamstrung. But many veteran cowmen were still making money, although, as a group, ranchers were just about breaking...
Damn Yankees tells of a fanatical middle-aged rooter for the Washington Senators who mutters that he'd sell his soul to have them take the pennant from the Yankees. At once a buyer with a cloven hoof appears, and transforms beefy Joe Boyd into lithe, 22-year-old Joe Hardy, the greatest ballplayer of all time. There is, however, an escape clause in the deal; and to keep Joe from escaping his clutches, the Devil puts redheaded Miss Verdon to work as an enchantress...
...would be within a week of an agreed date. He at once ordered the Baylor switchboard to send out the alert. But here came the first snag. The Houston Surgical Society was having a meeting in an inn near by, and the phone was busy. One doctor had to hoof it over to the inn to get the surgeons moving...
...hundred and fifty "horses," first banished from England to Belgium but now all hoof-printed for the U.S., ran into rough weather yesterday and couldn't land at East Boston for either the opening of suffolk Downs or the annual Paul Revere milk-wagon mush. All will be doped up for this afternoon's fast track, however, and ace CRIMSON handicapper Clocker Spanielle, who netted $5 on his doping for last year's opener, prophesies...