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...sells her, does not enjoy Argentina's favor. Long a sore point with Argentina is the prohibition against the import of fresh Argentine meat to the U. S., a ban largely due to the claims of lobbyists from cattle & sheep-raising western States that Argentine meat comes from livestock suffering from hoof-and-mouth disease...
...believe more good would be done for the state as a whole and for the college if the money used in hiring football coaches were used to improve the state's livestock," declared Scott. "We ought to be able to buy a dozen dandy bulls for the cost of our coaching staff...
Scott went on to assert that he believed less than 50 of the Oklahoma Aggies would drop out of college if football ceased to exist there. As a final suggestion he mentioned that a roof could be built over the stadium to make "a fine livestock pavilion...
Servant trouble last week compounded the normal confusions, stinks and noises of the world's biggest hotel. In the vast Chicago stockyards, a strike of C. I. O. stock handlers left 17,000 cattle and calves, 25,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep without service and the Chicago Livestock Exchange without a place to trade. Commission brokers and clerks fed & watered the stranded guests. The Exchange could do nothing for itself but suspend trading on the market where farmers sell (and brokers buy for packers and butchers) 13.1% of the cattle, 17.5% of the hogs, 5.3% of the calves...
...University of Texas, after which he took up his duties as a King-Kleberg, helped manage the ranch from 1911 to 1924. Since then he has been the Kleberg front man. His younger brother Robert Justus Jr. sees to the King's 125,000 head of livestock, including the Klebergs' own hardy "Santa Gertrudis" breed, its 1,500 miles of fences and the development of its newest treasure...