Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to A. P.'s booming small-loan business (the bank had 3,000,000 borrowers averaging loans of $300 apiece between 1935 and 1941). Wente has worked in a score of the small country and city banks that are now cashing in for A. P., knows farm, livestock and small .business problems. As his boss puts it, "he knows a lot more about banking than any city banker." From A. P., who hates Wall Street and hoity-toity big business almost more than he hates the New Deal, there can be no higher praise...
...have been running as much as 40% below last year-with the bulk going to the armed forces. But last week, on the Western ranges, kept green and thick by heavy spring rains, the grass was finally starting to dry up. Soon ranchers will have to start feeding their livestock grain, which is almost impossible to get, or send their herds off to market. This set the stage for a record stampede...
...Plains. As the monsoon came to Calcutta, thousands stood in line before food shops and were drenched. Because of the shortage of food in the suburbs, whole families moved in and camped on sidewalks in front of grain shops. In Bijapur district, near Bombay, famine was so severe that livestock died. In Bombay five persons were reported injured in a quarrel over a piece of bread. In the Punjab farmers hoarded their grain, thereby made the bad situation worse. (The price of Punjab village brides had gone up, a sure sign of spreading inflation.) Some maharajas put their elephants...
...nation's livestock growers were also on a kind of strike. On U.S. pastures and ranges, from Texas' giant King Ranch down to the tiniest farm, grazed more cattle (80,000,000 head) than ever before in history. Yet stockyards all over the U.S. were nearly empty. Cattle slaughtered in Federal-inspected yards had slumped to 150,000 for the week ending June 19, compared to 173,000 the preceding week. Last week the butchery was still less: in Chicago's Union Stockyards, hundreds of cattle pens were vacant...
...maximum amount of food. Also before Governor Dewey was the report of his Emergency Food Commission. Gist of the report: the nation must shift from a meat to a grain diet, must stretch its grain crops to the last ounce by feeding them directly to people instead of to livestock to be converted to meat. (The average hog takes seven pounds of corn to produce one pound of table pork...