Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minister of Agriculture Dr. James Ryan announced a serious outbreak of foot-&-mouth disease in Eire, said there is grave danger that the disease may become an epidemic. Promptly banned by Eire's Government were all horse races and horse shows, dog races, hunts and polo matches, to keep the disease from spreading. Public horse sales were stopped in 16 counties...
...England this was as bad news as the sinking of a convoy. It meant the loss of meat supplies from Ireland. Worse still, the same invading plague was already entrenched in Britain. In England this week there have been the worst attacks of foot-&-mouth disease in years and the public has begun to clamor against the Government's policy of slaughtering all infected beasts to prevent its spread. Reason: cattle are scarce, and the disease, though highly contagious, is rarely fatal to animals...
This was banned from the U. S. by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930), which prohibits importation from countries infected with hoof-&-mouth disease (Argentina is one. Others: Ireland and Britain- }. Patagonia, the southern part of Argentina, has never had hoof-&-mouth disease, is protected from the nation's chief cattle-growing regions by a mountain range and 200 miles of desert. The least Argentina expects from a Good Neighbor is permission to ship fresh meat from Patagonia. A convention negotiated by the sympathetic U. S. State Department in 1935 would give them this permission...
...cattle raisers are deathly afraid of the fast-spreading hoof-&-mouth disease...
...Percy was a landlubber for only the first 14 of his 61 years, and he came out of World War I a Captain. Once a squash-courts pal of the Duke of Windsor, he is the possessor of a face which fancies somewhat "that little man with the mousetrap mouth," Jellicoe of Jutland, of a sympathetic, discreet presence somewhere between the bedside manner of a family doctor and the last-testament-drafting manner of a family lawyer, and of a high reputation for naval alertness...