Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drab Kansas City, Kansas "across the viaduct." Only 225 miles from the geographical center of the U.S., it has the drive of the East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West. It annually holds the famed American Royal Livestock and Horse Show, sends steaks to half the continent, and has already placed a plaque on the spot (in the Muehlebach Hotel) where Harry Truman signed the first Greek-Turkish aid bill...
...great markets of La Villette, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, reeked as usual with the gore of freshly slaughtered livestock. Nearly a thousand butchers, ruddy-faced and cheerful, lounged about waiting for the clang of the heavy iron bell to call them into the slaughterhouses, to bid for the fresh carcasses of 800 oxen and cows, 1,000 calves, and 1,500 sheep...
This week, the cap started coming off the biggest item in the average family's budget: food (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the livestock market, hog prices this week dropped $2 to $22.50 a hundredweight, lowest in a year. Consumers waited for cheaper pork. The sympathetic break in hides, fats and oils, and cotton suggested possible future reductions in the prices of shirts, shoes and soap...
...below its high mark of last November. What had brought on the break? Government buying had slackened; the Government had almost all it needed for export under present goals. The winter wheat crop looked good, as deep snows had given it both protection and adequate moisture. And livestock feeders had begun to balk at paying $3 and up for corn, so more grain was going to market and less into hogs & cattle...
This would still leave the U.S. with plenty of wheat for its own needs: about 255 million bushels for processed foods, 23 million for seed, up to 177 million for livestock feed, and 150 million for the precautionary carry-over into the next crop year. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson hoped to cut livestock consumption enough to boost exports even higher-possibly to 500 million bushels...