Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation was terrible, was fast becoming desperate. Honest butchers had only a scaleful of high-grade cuts, black markets were growing like a yearling, meat-hungry citizens paid outrageous prices-and practically nobody knew what to do. Harried Washington officials last week guessed that up to 20% of all livestock slaughtered is going to black-marketers; in New York City alone illegal meat sales total about $2,500,000 weekly...
Another trouble: meat price ceilings are in the wrong places and at the wrong levels. All retail meat prices are pegged at the March 1942 level, but livestock prices (exception: hogs) are as free as a steer on the range. Inevitable result: a record wartime demand pushed livestock prices smack against retail meat ceilings, squeezed profit margins so thin many a jobber and packer was temporarily forced out of the market...
...follows this metaphysical reasoning to the bitter end, the Farm Bloc will try to smash the new ceiling to bits. Best augury for its enforcement is the fact that the Farm Bloc is to some degree split: livestock producers perhaps can be played off against grainmen. On the rule of divide and conquer, the Administration...
...time the Websters reached Scotland Caroline was quite annoyed with Mr. W. A good farmer, Statesman Webster kept deserting his wife to look at British livestock. Once he left Caroline to "see some Ayrshire cows." While Mrs. W. was chiefly interested in looking at Durham Cathedral, Mr. W. concentrated on buying "one ram and three ewes." At Oxford he went to see "implements of farming." Mrs. W. looked over the colleges, avoiding Titian's paintings of The Loves of the Gods ("The subject not suited to ladies...
Edward Vivian Robertson, 61, Wyoming, liberal, Welsh-born owner of Cody's finest general store and livestock ranch. Suave, handsome E. V. Robertson, who once refused a $7,500 AAA soil-conservation check, is no machine politician; he has his own ideas about progressive government. He will also have one of the Senate's oddest hobbies: making ranch-building models out of matchsticks...