Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked like a pack of driver ants and left the country bone-clean. More than half of Greece's wheat (which had to be supplemented by imports in normal times) was "sold" to Germany. Greek tomatoes, even green ones, were hurried to scurvy-ridden German troops in Africa. Livestock, dried vegetables and fruits went the same way. The Germans fried Greek potatoes in Greek fat and shipped them, cooked, back to Germany. The Nazi Army of Occupation, during the two months it was in command, bought up all stocks of clothes with bundles of their worthless "occupation marks...
...Chicago this week, amid bellows, oinks, neighs and baas, with the skirl of a bagpipe band, exuberant farmers gathered for the 42nd International Livestock Exposition. Rising demand for their products made farmers feel better than they have felt in years. The numbers of U.S. cattle, sheep and hogs, especially hogs, have shot up in the past five years from 160 to 180 million...
Farm Land. "Nowhere did we see any signs of burned crops, such as might be expected under the Soviet scorched-earth policy, although almost all tools, tractors and livestock had been removed or destroyed." For the job of reclamation, the Germans had brought Sonderführer (special leaders) from German farms. These little Fuhrers, used to tending small German farms, were dismayed to find themselves put in charge of almost 100,000 acres each...
...springs; the Gudgers' kitchen bucket with its "fishy-metallic kind of shine and grease beyond any power of cleaning"; the exact texture of the house's pine siding; the stinking clay yard, and "the chilly and small dust which is beneath porches"; a Mark Twainesque catalogue of livestock from cats and mules to the "clutter of obese, louse-tormented hens"; an inventory of the contents of every house, outhouse and room, including the smell of everything the author could (as he softly put it) "take odor...
...crushed bean which turns into meal, the Commodity Year Book says: "More than 95% . . . is used for feeding livestock and poultry. . . . The feeding of livestock does not lend itself to dramatization and human interest stories, and therefore many people are led to believe that the minor uses of soybean oil meal are the major uses...