Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believers dress in European clothes and sit around tables with bottles of flowers on them, sometimes they pretend to write on pieces of paper. Many of the cults seek to bring on the new by destroying the old; they deliberately violate the ancient taboos of their people, kill their livestock, stop cultivating their fields. "Sometimes they spend days sitting gazing at the horizon for a glimpse of the long-awaited ship or airplane; sometimes they dance, pray and sing in mass congregations, becoming possessed and 'speaking with tongues...
Editing such copy, the Farm Journal's Streeter is as much farmer as newsman. He grew up on a South Dakota livestock ranch, graduated with a degree in agriculture from Iowa State College in 1923. After college, he caught on with the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette as its first farm editor, spent days skidding down muddy roads to dig out stories in long, back-fence chats with farmers. Says he: "When you're looking for news, there's nothing that beats getting out yourself and talking to sources...
...vast estates of Junker aristocrats were thriving industrial and port cities until Allied bombs and the savage conflict between Nazi and Russian armies wiped them out, leaving half the homes and 60% of the factories gutted. Soviet plunderers took most of what was left-railroad rolling stock, machines and livestock. Under the Potsdam Agreement this barren area (the size of Virginia) went to Poland to compensate her for the Polish lands to the east grabbed by Russia. At Western insistence, Poland's authority was "provisional" until a final peace treaty was signed with Germany...
Congratulations on your skillful report on Farm Businessman North [March 9] and others like him who are upsetting not only production records but outdated concepts of what the agricultural industry really is. While efficiency of livestock production has been boosted by refined management methods and breeding of animals with better production potential, constant beefing-up of nutritionally balanced feeds has probably contributed more than any other factor to present efficiency in food production...
Having organized its humans into herds, Chinese Communist leaders last week turned their attention to the nation's livestock. Statisticians discovered that of 27 million "eligible female animals" in China, 12 million have never conceived. The party issued a directive calling for "100% bovine pregnancy...