Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more eggs had only fair results. For one thing, housewives could not understand why the egg price had to stay up at 55? a dozen, when millions of eggs were going bad for lack of buyers. Then WFA sold 100 of the piled-up carloads at $30 each for livestock feed. Critics saw a major scandal. Why, they demanded, were eggs that WFA had bought for something like $6,000 a carload dumped as cattle feed rather than dehydrated or stored? WFA's answers...
Administration hopes that Midwest farmers will sell enough corn from their 1944 crop to enable livestock raisers to secure adequate stocks of feed for the winter months...
...Convalescence. "Civilians, livestock and the wounded walk in long disciplined columns over the mountains at night. I asked whether plaster was available for fractures. Yes, it could always be captured from the enemy, but plaster breaks in the movement, so broken limbs are compressed by wooden boards nailed together. Nor is there any convalescence possible in this country - a man belongs to a walking hospital or to the front...
...prominently hung. There are gentler people like Wisconsin University's goateed Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, to whom dairymen are forever grateful. He refused patents or profit on his butterfat-measuring Babcock Test. There is Herbert Hoover; he was hung for his veto of legislation which would have hurt livestock...
...Portraits and Death. The Saddle & Sirloin Club was founded in 1901, to extend recognition to men who had made outstanding contributions to the livestock industry. Recognition, the founders decided, should take the form of a portrait of each member. The original portrait artist was James R. Stuart. He was followed by Arvid Nieholm. Most of their portraits were destroyed in the stockyards fire of 1934, and Robert Grafton was commissioned to redo the lost canvases. After completing 100 portraits in two years, Artist Grafton dropped dead. Saddle & Sirloin's current portraitist is Othmar Hoffler. He has been...