Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less Food-Later. Last week 100 carloads of Canadian feed wheat were shipped into Kansas, No. 1 wheat-producing state, to replenish dwindling supplies of livestock feed. U.S. grain stocks are running dangerously...
...livestock population is now so big that practically all of last year's bumper corn harvest, plus a carry-over of 394 million bushels, will have been drawn from the cribs by October, when the 1944 corn crop is harvested. It is estimated that by July, wheat stocks in the cavernous elevators will be down to a little more than a month's supply. In one year the record number of U.S. livestock will have eaten all the grain that the land produced, plus the huge surpluses from other years...
...rare back and say, "Oh, no, they're not, we're charging two cents more today." He drives off in a huff and I sit down on my case of eggs and charge and charge and charge, but nothing happens. The same system applies to livestock. We truck it to the city and are informed that the "market" is so much today. We can charge all we like but we get paid whatever the market happens to be. Charge...
...indicted for camouflaging himself against the draft in farmer's overalls. Owner of a 520-acre farm in Hawk Point, Mo. he was charged by a federal grand jury with obtaining a 3 C classification (agricultural deferment) by filing a false report on the number of his livestock...
Sued for Divorce. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, 33, husky, hard-eyed second son of President Roosevelt, now with the Army Air Forces in the European Theater; Fort Worth's black-haired, vivacious Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, 35, in Texas. The Colonel met the then Miss Googins at a livestock show in Fort Worth, married her in 1933, five days after he was divorced by his first wife, Elizabeth, mother of William Donner Roosevelt, 12. Elliott was later dropped from the Social Register. Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt charged "unkind, harsh and tyrannical conduct," asked for the custody of their three children...