Word: larded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corn into Meat. Most U. S. corn is fed to hogs, steers, chickens. Thus when corn soars so does pork, lard, eggs, beef. Fat corn-fed steers have risen in the past fortnight from a $8.50 per cwt. to $9.50. Top price for hogs last week was $5.60, best level in three years. Meanwhile, however, the stock yards have been overrun with gaunt, stumbling beasts which stricken farmers can no longer feed, and this is why the price of ordinary meat-on-the-hoof has gained little. Government purchases of relief cattle may run as high...
...milk, 135 lb. of leafy and other green vegetables, 165 lb. of meat and fish, an egg for breakfast every day. Researcher Doane discovered that with 1929's good crops every citizen could have been provided with all the grain, potatoes, beans, peas, nuts, fats, bacon and lard called for by the diet?and the U. S. would still have had a surplus of 267,000,000 bu. of grain, of a billion pounds of potatoes, etc. But when it came to milk the U. S. would have been 13 billion quarts short; citizens could have got only about...
...wanted to put the brick on top of the Juneau post but his good friend Stuyvesant Fish decided a gilded paving stone would do just as well. Last year Ben Smith had the dubious pleasure of turning his brick into the treasury at $20.67 Per ounce. Eggs, butter, lard and other farm products have long had speculators to assume future risks. Largest butter & egg market is in Chicago but handy for Wall Streeters is the second largest-Manhattan's old Mercantile Exchange, where chalk marks on the butter board have made many a fortune and where some 450 brokers...
...clogged with them. Some think they poison their victims, others that the chief damage is loss of blood. Arkansas veterinarians and entomologists were researching frantically last week, but expected the gnats to be gone before they could learn much. Meantime they advised farmers to smear their stock with rancid lard and kerosene, with cottonseed oil and pine tar, or with a mixture of soap, water, petroleum and powdered naphthalin. But what the farmers really hoped for were a few good hot days, which drop gnats dead as quickly as they come...
With his cheerful zest for getting things done, President Roosevelt saw $2,000,000 worth of pork, lard, wheat flour and rice dispatched with utmost urgency to Havana. Mr. Welles had evidently told his White House friend that the danger of a Negro uprising and race-war in depression-ridden Cuba is real. If it can be bought off with $10,000,000 worth of dollar diplomacy the price seemed cheap to Washington. Having refused to lend a cent to feed hungry, rebellious Cubans until President Mendieta had been maneuvered in, President Roosevelt was credited throughout Latin America this week...