Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the market was thrown out of gear with a resounding crash. A flood of selling started when the market opened. By the close, corn and soy beans were down 8?, their daily legal limit; wheat fell 6 to 8¾?. Even wholesale meat prices slipped, along with livestock prices. One thing that had finally frightened the speculator into panicky selling was a decision by the Federal Government to cut purchases of grains for November export by some 50 million bu., 42% below the July-October level. And traders who had expected frost to nip the short corn crop...
Bigger Cut. Livestock raisers,according to Department of Agriculture figures, are the chief beneficiaries of high-priced meat. They now get 70? of every consumer's dollar spent on meat, as against 51? in 1939. Although it had no exact figures on the remaining 30? , the department guessed that it was split as follows: commission agents 2?, packers 10? , wholesalers 3? and retailers...
Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died...
There had never been a Hereford bull like Hazford Rupert 81st. At the age of three he won the grand prize at Chicago's International Livestock Exposition in 1936. Deep-bodied, square-rumped, the Hereford champion was sold to Cattleman Roy J. Turner, now Oklahoma's Governor. The price was small, only $18,500 for Rupert and nine other bulls. Rupert was withdrawn from the show ring, as Turner thought he would do better on his 10,000-acre breeding ranch in the heart of Oklahoma's "Hereford Heaven...
...down the ravaged Mississippi Valley last week, at least 48,000 refugees straggled back from the hills to homes and farms reeking with flood muck. Truck gardens were gone. Livestock was drowned. In 40 days, at least 4,000,000 acres of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois had suffered an estimated $500 million damage-a cost only 25% below that of TVA, and slightly less than the money spent on Mississippi flood control in the last 16 years...