Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trees into plate-glass windows, poured into hundreds of lobbies, showrooms and basements, and even forced round-the-clock gambling places to close up. On the California side of the mountains there were floods from Marysville south to Bakersfield; 15,000 were driven from their homes, crops were ruined, livestock drowned and 326,000 acres submerged...
...Stalinist Russia or Franco Spain, needs economic help badly. All summer the sun has baked its rich black earth uninterruptedly to produce the worst famine in generations. Many peasants have not even bothered to harvest their dismal crops despite compulsory delivery quotas ordered by the government. They have slaughtered livestock for want of feed...
Lucas read from his notebook: "From 1932 to 1949, the value of Crawford County livestock increased...
Mendenhall and 25 other Quakers near Fairhope have put their farms up for sale. They plan to move to Costa Rica, which disbanded its army in 1949. In their new land, picked after a survey of Latin American farm areas, they plan to raise livestock and coffee. Said Mendenhall: "The sense of values in this country is becoming more materialistic all the time . . . In Costa Rica we can only hope to make a modest living, but it will not be so directly tied in with the military economy...
...tell whether the vaccination campaign has fully achieved its purpose. Quarantine, inspection and disinfection will continue. If in two years there is no further outbreak of aftosa, there is a good chance that the U.S. ban on importation of Mexican beef -which once totaled half a million head of livestock a year-will be lifted...