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...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...
...Southern states when the northern blockade deprived them of salt. The 9,000,000 Confederates had used 300,000,000 Ibs. of salt a year, most of it in curing bacon. Humans were weakened through lack of salt in their diet, and Lee's horses suffered hoof and tongue diseases. Determinedly after the subject, Dr. Lonn spent five years studying the archives at Raleigh, Montgomery, Jackson, New Orleans, Atlanta...
...Belmont Park last week, never-beaten Pavot (rhymes with Jimmy Savo) toyed with 14 rival two-year-olds. Despite an injured hoof, he added the Futurity Stakes (winner's share $52,200) to his seven previous victories, for a first-season total earnings of $180,350. So doing, he placed himself squarely behind a traditional eight ball: in 54 years, not one Futurity winner (Man o' War and Top Flight included) has won the Kentucky Derby the following spring...
...Hoof and Horne...
...Hoof and Wheel. The Japanese were there in force and they were mobile, ahorse, afoot and truck-fed. They could marshal superiority in numbers at any point they chose. They had a fifth column of diabolical proportions. In Kweilin, some said, General Kenji Doihara himself was directing the fifth column, but they were wrong. Behind the elbow of every soldier stood the fear of a traitor; the fifth column was among the refugee flood on southbound trains, collecting information, firing buildings, shooting at sight...