Word: hoofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Department of Agriculture officials mislaid 5,000,000 pigs. They had estimated last year's output of pigs at an alltime high of about 105,000,000. The market figures showed no such thing. Somewhere, somehow, 5,000,000 pigs had disappeared -hoof, hide and holler...
...point which encourages turning corn into hogs instead of into cash.* Since 80% to 90% of the corn crop normally goes into hogs on the farm anyway, most farmers will not be penalized by the new ceiling because hog prices are pegged so high that corn-on-the-hoof sells at around $1.50 a bushel. Corn itself has not sold that high since...
...auctioned off New Year's Eve for the benefit of the American Theater Wing War Service was a super-mink coat, on Tallulah Bankhead's shoulders worth a picture (see cut); on the hoof...
...special train carrying 452 pallid, cadaverous, sick and wounded French war prisoners ground into the Gare du Nord last week, bringing a stench of decaying, living flesh to Paris. Six trainloads of healthy French flesh on the hoof left France for Germany. Pierre Laval's plan of exchanging three French workers for one war prisoner was functioning. Frenchmen had become domestic animals, weighed and traded and shipped...
...Pork on the hoof hit a 22-year high of $15.30 cwt. last week despite retail price-fixing. At $15.30, economists figured that scientific feeding of 85? corn in the trough brought over $2.50 a bu. gross when resold...