Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scent through the Mails. In Philadelphia, 60-year-old John Wagner was held for grand jury action despite his protest that livestock on his McClure, Pa. farm needed the garbage he had been mailing...
Meat packers found themselves jammed between the ceiling and the rising cost of meat on the hoof. A black market sprang up. The Government tried to fix that by giving the slaughterers' subsidies. Then it put a ceiling on livestock. Cattle raisers bemoaned high feed costs. So the Government gave them subsidies...
Nevertheless, the new flour might be raising more problems than it solved. Higher extraction meant 30% less "mill-feed," the residue from milling which farmers feed their livestock and poultry. With feed already short, chances were that farmers would hang on to their wheat for feed. They had another reason. They hoped to have ceilings taken off farm products. Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson tried another method, not so painless, to get grain. He boosted the ceiling prices on wheat, now $1.80½ a bushel at Chicago, 3?. Up also went corn, 3? oats, 2? and barley...
...Roman Catholic churches in Regina the Casti Connubü encyclical of Pope Pius XI was read: "Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects. . . ." Cried Social Credit League President Dr. Joshua N. Haldeman: "A beginning in reducing human beings to the category of livestock in a barnyard." Barrister Dorothy Greensmith saw a distressing vision: "Girls treated and released from institutions would become the prey of predatory human wolves...
...Bolsheviks gave them one based on the Russian alphabet, then introduced a proper selection of newspapers, magazines and books. The Tuvinians had lived mostly in bark tepees and felt yurts (tents); they followed their herds from pasture to pasture. The Bolsheviks collectivized the pastures, transformed the nomads into livestock farmers, built motor roads, distributed sewing machines, phonographs and radios, promoted cities like the Tuvinian capital, Kizilkhoto (I.e.,"Redtown,v pop. 10,000). The Bolsheviks put even Buddhist monks to work. They also introduced drugstores...