Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose life has been lived in a vast corporation do not see a disaster like the drought as a human problem. They see farms and livestock only as statistics. As a result, relief is grudging and reluctant, too much red tape, too little real help-and always too late . . . Many of you here [at Oklahoma City] today are farmers. You have had particular reason to feel the neglect and the indifference of a big-business administration. For three years the Republican leaders watched farm prices fall with philosophical calm. This is the nice, polite way of saying they did nothing...
...haircut that looks almost as old. At the Hardin County Fair last week he declined to sit on the officials' platform, turned down a chance to award a trophy, shook his head modestly when asked if he would like to make a few re marks at the livestock show. What he did was wander around, clasping hands, tousling little boys' hair, and telling everyone how glad he was to be at "your wonderful, just wonderful, great, beautiful and fine county fair." And that is the style that has made Lausche the greatest Democratic vote-getter in Ohio history...
...count's secretary, taking advantage of an old French custom, scurried around to each merchant and demanded 10% commission on everything his master had bought. He collected, in cash, some 2,000,000 francs ($5,700). The count busied himself by making a fast deal with the livestock on his newly acquired farm, selling part of it to one buyer for $8,500, the rest to another for $3,400. The count insisted on cash...
...Americans tend to assume that dependence on agriculture keeps their countries poor, and that the fast, easy way to national wealth is forced-draft industrialization. One result is that agriculture remains, by and large, woefully inefficient. Countries in which more than half the labor force grows crops or raises livestock use scarce foreign exchange to pay for imported foodstuffs-and are still...
...country (four times larger than France itself). They operated with precision. Secret cells throughout the country kept them informed of French troop dispositions. They usually struck in groups of 10 or 20 partisans who did the shooting, backed up by some 50 auxiliaries who burned crops and buildings, destroyed livestock and equipment. Sometimes, when French troops made open attacks dangerous, rebels doused cats and dogs with gasoline, drove them flaming into barns or haystacks...