Word: lard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys were driving to Dickson, Tenn. a pair of young mules; the mules became frightened at the train and ran away with the wagon; Mr. Hogan and his good wife were both thrown out and one of the boys got his head stuck in a ten-gallon can of lard before the mules stopped...
Average retail price of beef is 17% above a year ago; pork chops 34%; lard 70%; poultry 16%; eggs 23%; canned peas 22%. Hotels and restaurants reported butchers' bills up 37%. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food index covering 31 different items has climbed 7% since the year end, now standing 30% above February 1934, 83% above February 1933. Only a few staples like potatoes, cabbages, onions, bananas are selling lower than a year...
...seeds and linseeds, in which the company was also short, had fluctuated violently. Soon the company found itself being slowly squeezed to death by a world-wide shortage of oils and fats which was aggravated when cottonseed oil output in the U. S. was cut by cotton acreage reduction, lard output by the corn-hog program, beef tallow by the Drought...
...characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when we have a superfluity of good things the whole world will kowtow to Russia as to a rich uncle...
...Swift it was better than the year before and only a few million short of the company's 1926 high of $15,000,000. During the first ten months, said President Gustavus Franklin Swift, U. S. meat-eaters had consumed nearly three pounds more meat and lard than the year before. The forced marketing of drought-stricken animals had led the company at times to operate "at a rate far beyond what it had always regarded as peak capacity...