Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raging ground blizzards threw up new mountainous drifts on the snow-smothered western plains yesterday, piling up fresh blockades to rail and auto travel and posing a new crisis for snow-bound livestock and ranchers...
Warren made a speech which demonstrated his infinite capacity for the revolving, roller-bearing, dipsy-doodle phrase. He "took up the burden" . . . "entered upon consecrated service" and promised to "eliminate roaming livestock from the roads." He promised that one & all could come to his office and see him, though, he added with a wink, "... it will help a whole lot if you voted right...
...Chairman George A. Eastwood had an answer to the Government's charge in an antitrust suit (TIME, Sept. 27) that meat packers had conspired to keep prices high, and thereby assure high profits. Because of the ten week packinghouse workers' strike and the upsurge in livestock prices last spring, Armour & Co. will wind up the year with a $2,000,000 loss on close to $2 billion in sales...
...give that answer. If vaccination fails to wipe out the plague, then Mexico must probably resign herself to living more or less permanently with aftosa, controlling it as best she can. And the threat of disastrous infection from across the border will hang heavy over the $11 billion U.S. livestock industry...
...boys," he said, "just left them on the tree. They just didn't sell well." In the rich San Luis Valley, farmers estimated that a quarter of a million crates of lettuce and 70,000 tons of cabbage had been plowed under or fed to livestock. Despite an 11% cut in apple production, some 5,000,000 bushels of apples will go to waste this year...