Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even after 2½ years in the agriculture school of Oklahoma A. & M., Edwin Fisher, 20, could not help feeling nervous about what lay ahead. The big intercollegiate livestock judging contest in Fort Worth is one of four major contests of the year, and top students from 16 campuses had come to Fort Worth to take part in it. On the night before, Eddie Fisher went early to his room at the Westbrook Hotel, read a chapter (Judges 7) from the Gideon Bible, turned off the light and tried to sleep...
...whole farm. In addition to working for the cooperative and receiving a salary based upon the amount of work he does for it, the peasant on the kolkhoz is allowed to have a small plot of land upon which he can grow his own products and raise livestock. He can sell this produce on the open market to supplement his income. The peasant, as might be expected, generally prefers to till his own plot rather than the cooperative...
...potential of the West. Because of this, capital in the past was almost completely invested in heavy industry and not in light industry and agriculture. Malenkov raised slightly the percentage of money invested for consumer goods produced and imported; cut the farmers' taxes slightly; gave the farmers concessions on livestock; lowered the prices on consumer goods; and raised wages...
...streets are choked with gaudily painted, bell-tingling pedicabs, with tiny, pony-drawn gharries, with stray livestock and rickety prewar Fords and Chevrolets, all cowed by the horn-blasting Packards, Cadillacs and Mercedes of government officials, black marketeers, Chinese and European traders. The near chaos of Djakarta's streets is symptomatic of the near chaos-economic, political and social-of the whole republic...
...other hand, who wouldn't like to see a livestock show in the Yard? The Athletic Association could send out bulletins announcing that a very high price would be paid for the biggest and best cow to pass though the Yard gates. University Hall and Sever, with very little alteration, could be made very comfortable for the bovine species. And Memorial Hall would be a natural for the overflow...