Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under of cotton. Last week A. A. A. accepted in principle a price-upping plan from the National Corn-Hog Producers Committee of 25 which had been grappling with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that amount next year, by rushing to market little pigs before they became big pigs, brood sows before they had another litter. The proposal called...
...slaughter in 46 days of 1,000,000 sows weighing 275 Ib. or more. That would reduce next year's pork supply by 5,000,000 unborn pigs. Packers would pay producers a premium of $4 per sow. With hogs now selling at about $4 per cwt., a 275-lb. sow would thus bring...
Artist Diego Rivera, lost 125 Ib. (from 310 Ib.) in eight months by substituting thyroid extract for exercise. He also avoided fat-building foods...
Other reducers: Bandman Paul Whiteman shrivelled from 293 Ib. to 189 lb. in one year. He started with a diet of grapefruit juice and green vegetables, and no liquor. For breakfast he had black coffee and grapefruit juice; for lunch some greens, but no dressing; for dinner lean meat and a green vegetable. One day a week his menu was composed entirely of starches and sweets...
...desserts. But he is not finicky about his food. He eats some of whatever may be on the table. For breakfast he regularly has two eggs, three rashers of bacon, two slices of toast, orange juice. On his sedentary boating vacation, he ate quantities of baked beans, gained 7 Ib. (174 Ib. to 181 Ib.). When he returned to Washington, looking fit as a bull fiddle, he declared last week he was going to lose that excess weight at once-''by eating less...