Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked about what might be done as a measure of atonement: some looms, perhaps, to establish a small tapestry-weaving business, with equipment, dyes and technical assistance to come from Germany; 10,000 poplar trees to provide wood for the crates Greece needs to ship its fruit crops, livestock to increase the village's pitiful herd of 100 cows to 1,000 or more; a training program which would send 30 Kalavryta youths to Bavaria each year to learn good farming methods...
...TIME, April 13) sloshing over mashed eggs, gooey marshmallows and melted jelly beans, together with comfort stations erected in critical positions, lends an air of cheap revelry to the Executive Mansion. The only things which appeared to be lacking were the Ferris wheels, the sideshows, and the prize county livestock...
...wholesale drop quickly enough, thus meat piled up that would have been consumed in the ordinary working of supply & demand. Normally, a 10% drop in the retail price of meat boosts consumption about the same amount. So far, retail prices have fallen only about one-third as far as livestock prices, and will probably drop farther. Once they do, the increased consumption will probably clean out the glut...
Across the Channel, from the Orkneys south to Dover, the low-lying British coast lay beaten and flooded. Here & there a lonely church spire rose above scenes of desolation. Dozens of bodies and thousands of head of livestock floated dead on the floodwaters. Norfolk, the hardest hit, was first to report high casualties-17 bodies found floating on the flood waters at Felixstowe, scores of other deaths-including at least nine U.S. servicemen and their kin from the East Anglian bomber base in Hunstanton. On the west of Britain, the storm took 128 in one blow when it swamped...
Foxes & Flares. Over tilled hill and manicured dale they bounded with tally-hos, yoicks and view halloos, making life miserable not only for the fox, but for stolid farmers and their livestock. It was not long before, in the words of one who was there, "the locals were raising a proper bloody ruckus." For one thing, such goings-on were not cricket in the eyes of Lower Saxony farmers, whose own system of hunting is to grub about on foot with small whistles that imitate the cries of a rabbit, and then to pounce on the fox. They appealed...