Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With steers beginning to jam stockyard pens and hogs flooding to market, the U.S. Government moved to put more meat on U.S. platters. It did this by lifting quotas on livestock slaughter so that the stockyard pens could be cleared. It also lowered ration points on many meat items...
...Soviet Economist Eugene Varga said that Russia would demand reparations from the Axis first, before they are paid to Britain and the U.S. Besides payments in money, goods, livestock and machinery, Professor Varga said that 10,000,000 skilled German workers would be required to repair Russia's property damage...
...Texas, the corn crop was already made. Cotton was not hurt very much by heat. But grain sorghums were in danger. Cattle were being fed on silage. Said the Dallas News: "Unless the drought and heat are broken within a week, the crop and livestock situation could become serious. . . ." The onetime dust bowl got a good rain. But June-filled water holes in trie Panhandle were drying up; feed and water for livestock were scarce...
...about 57% of normal. Peanuts were expected to be a total loss. Wheat was less than half of last year's production (29 million bu. v. 61 million bu.). Pastures and stock ponds dried up, made the feed shortage so acute that many cattlemen were sending their livestock to market ahead of schedule...
...years with BAI, John Mohler had" become the archetype of thousands of Government workers who serve their country well, grinding away at their jobs, oblivious of politicians and political upheavals. He had done more than any other American to rid the country of the dread diseases that plague livestock-bovine tuberculosis, foot-& -mouth disease, cattle tick fever and Bang's disease. So doing he had helped raise the whole standard of health...