Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gulf, Mobile & Ohio paid $38,963 damages last year for livestock hit by its trains. Last week its officers blinked at an unprecedented letter. Wrote honest W. D. Myers of Deemer, Miss.: "It was my cow that got out of place and there will be no claim filed...
...House he has plugged a theme dear to cattle-State politicians: protect the U. S. livestock industry by keeping out South American meat. His amendment prohibits use of any part of the appropriation for food or clothing produced outside the U. S., thus applies to Australian wool as well as to Argentine beef. Says Congressman Scrugham: "I come from a district dependent almost entirely on beef and wool. I'm sent here to protect the interests of those growers. If I don't, they'll kick my -." To Good Neighborites, purchase of Argentine canned beef...
Since the Nazification of Europe, longtime foes of the South American steer, like Wyoming's Senator O'Mahoney and the American National Livestock Association, have switched to approving Army & Navy purchases from Argentina. Administration Senators were determined to knock out the Scrugham amendment this week...
...isolated cases but in every way they can. They believe in tackling troubles at their root. In World War I this philosophy led them to start rebuilding ruined French villages even before the Armistice. Afterwards they fed starving children, stopped epidemics, restocked whole provinces with farm tools, seeds and livestock, left permanent centres for "international good will" in Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Paris. Between wars they built schools in Mexico, helped Okies and jobless coal miners, ran hostels for refugees. Now they are busy once more in war-torn Europe. Last week Marshal Pétain received Quaker Howard Kershner...
...masthead Wright put up an invitation: "Farmers, Write for Your Paper." He campaigned hard for many a rural benefit (free schools, State fairs, crop rotation, a law to keep livestock from roaming at large) that later became fact. Each year he told his readers what Prairie Farmer had earned, how much he had kept as profit. From time to time wanderlust would seize him, and he would disappear for six months or a year to trade in real estate or dicker with eastern capitalists...