Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only the Livestock. Now being shown in Latin America and Australia and still going strong in the U.S., Mom and Dad is a knowing mixture of syrup, spice and corn. It blends scenes of childbirth, a Caesarean operation and the ravages of venereal disease into a tear-squeezing fable about a high-school girl who "got into trouble" because her parents kept her in ignorance. (Catch lines: "It Happens Somewhere Every Night," "Millions Learned the Hard Way, But You Can See the Facts...
...there is a twist to the classification. The animals are not the ordinary farm livestock variety; they are human. Sheep are persons who believe in the possibility of extra-sensory perception, and goats are those who disbelieve that such a power exists...
Science has long approved of artificial insemination, Karl Sax, professor of Botany, and director of the Arnold Arboretum, said when asked for the scientific opinion. Long successfully used to breed superior livestock, the results are perfectly harmless and safe...
...beef prices tumbled. Choice grades of beef which had brought a top price of $41.60 a hundredweight last summer were offered for as low as $25, only $6.25 above OPA levels. Hogs slumped $1 to $20.50, lowest since October 1946. But at the start of this week, both livestock and grains firmed...
...annual livestock convention in Toronto's Royal York Hotel last week, the big talk was about Holsteins. The Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada reported that in 1948, its best year yet, registered sales of purebred Holsteins reached a record total of 61,539 (there were all sorts of guesses on how many more sales went unregistered). Almost half of the animals had been exported, the largest number to the U.S., whose big demand for Holstein and other breeding stock has made Canada a leading exporter in the business. The rest went to 18 different countries, most of them...