Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian-bred Shorthorn and U. S.-bred Hereford, poked ribs, chest, shoulders like a house guest poking the guest bed mattress. He tipped his hat forward, tipped it back. He held a whispered consultation with Armour & Co.'s portly old Colonel Edward Norris Wentworth, perennial ringmaster of livestock shows, who apparently gave him no help...
...position would do--have taken what they need and left the others to make out as well as they can with what is left. According to the Black report "the Germans have surely taken possession of the reserves of breadstuffs in the occupied countries--have requisitioned or purchased considerable livestock--have purchased much of the dairy and poultry output--." The relief shipments would be the margin between malnutrition and a relatively healthy subsistence, for the people from whom this food is being taken. Since it is to the interests of Germany that the occupied areas be not cesspools of spreading...
...perhaps another 30,000 visitors. Ahead also, for Florida, lay potential new wealth. Boss of the trip, A. C. L.'s Victor Wallace Lewis, has run such trains thrice before. He ran one through North Carolina in 1930; in the next ten years North Caro lina's livestock traffic increased 400%. Polite, twinkling-eyed Dr. Arthur Listen Shealy, U. of F.'s exhibit master, believes Florida's 35,000,000 acres can feed more livestock...
...livestock from Florida already accounts for one-third of livestock revenue, could easily account for more. Since only about 40 new carloads of cattle to New York City (at A. C. L.'s $125 share per carload) would return the $5,000 development cost, it is hard to see how A. C. L.'s long-range promotion can lose...
...tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets and livestock summoned out of nowhere, Sim Sala Bim provided plenty of pleasantly stupefying hokum...