Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Restored the livestock subsidy program...
...Restored the ceilings on livestock, soybeans, cottonseed...
...Present livestock ceilings are "Fair and equitable...
Even if OPA's flurry of crackdown activity succeeded beyond its hopes, the results would be hardly noticeable on U.S. tables. The meat shortage was virtually a famine, and it would not soon get better. Shipments of livestock to slaughtering centers had dried up; many slaughterers closed up shop indefinitely, along with thousands of butchers. In a week in which it would normally purchase and process 9,000 cattle and 26,000 hogs, Armour & Co.'s main plant in Chicago took in only 68 cattle, 139 hogs...
Americans will soon have dirty faces and hands to go with their meatless tables. As the slaughtering of livestock declines, so falls the supply of tallow, a basic ingredient of soap. Last week Procter & Gamble, one of the world's largest soapmakers, predicted that the soap shortage in the U.S. will soon be worse than during...