Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranks last week as the party faithful gathered at the Waldorf for the great New York clambake. The affair was officially billed as a $100-a-plate testimonial dinner honoring Mutual Security Administrator W. Averell Harriman and launching him as a presidential candidate. It was also a prime Democratic livestock show, with all the prize specimens on display. But one measure of the Democrats' dazed condition was the fact that the blue ribbon went to Stevenson, who had just strolled out of the pasture...
...Holmes did not attempt to mechanize Etawah, but showed the Indian farmers how to use their primitive implements to better effect. He persuaded them to make compost of village waste, thus indirectly imposing sanitation where none had existed. He taught them how to drain their fields, how to inoculate livestock...
...Canada's livestock industry currently faces a major crisis because of foot-and-mouth disease. A German immigrant who had worked on an infected farm in Germany apparently carried the infection in on his clothes (TIME, March...
Canada's $2 billion livestock industry faced a major crisis: an outbreak of the dread foot-and-mouth disease, first in Canadian history, was discovered on the cattle ranges of Saskatchewan. An hour after the disease was reported, the U.S. clamped an embargo on Canadian meats and livestock, shutting off Canada's $100 million-a-year trade south of the border. Eastern Canadian provinces banned livestock shipments from the prairies. Business slumped at Western packing houses, and wholesale beef prices were driven down sharply...
...stepped up as the front man when the Administration sailed into dangerous political seas with the price freeze in January 1951. Then he put a price ceiling on raw cotton, and went to Capitol Hill to defy the congressional cotton bloc. Last fall, in the face of stampeding livestock men, he stuck to meat controls even when Harry Truman wanted to slaughter them. When members of Congress chuckled at his jokes, but shredded the price control law he wanted, Di Salle stuck to his job. Even his opponents agreed that he did about as well as could be expected with...