Word: pig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This little pig went to market, At a price too fancy and high, This little pig went to heaven (Or where pigs go when they die); This little pig had taxes galore To drain and condition its sty, And this little pig dined in grandeur and state On eight different kinds...
...farm in Ohio. It's about 1.200 acres, and I have a number of tenants on it with nice homes and three acres apiece for farms and livestock. Nary a one has a cow, nary a one has a chicken, nary a one has a pig, and nary a one has a vegetable garden. But every danged one of 'em has an automobile. I reason that no man making $2 a day can afford to run an automobile. It just can't be done on a sound economic basis...
Until last week the pride of Ontario reformers was Norman F. ("Red") Ryan, a hulking, 200-lb. Torontonian with little pig eyes and a disarming smile. Red Ryan's highly publicized criminal career first attracted wide attention in 1921. For armed robbery he was sentenced to seven years in St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary and given 14 lashes on the bare back with...
...source. During the palmy days of Prohibition, they testified, Captain Cadek systematically jailed every liquor dealer in his territory who failed to give him handsome, periodic bribes. So well understood was Captain Cadek's policy that on one occasion the 'leggers combined to tender the "Skipper" a pig-roast and clambake, at which they presented him with two beer kegs so stuffed with currency that it had to be stamped down before Captain Cadek could lug it away...
Reported in the U. S. last week was a new method of fattening pigs, developed and practiced in Russia. U. S. S. R. scientists discovered that drawing blood from pigs makes them fat. In experiments conducted by the Voronezh Meat Combine, 44 pigs were bled periodically and in amounts according to body weight. Thirty-two control pigs were given identical food, shelter and treatment, but no bleeding. After seven weeks the bled pigs had gained an average of 3 lb. more than the others, 30 of them were fat enough to be classed as lard pigs. Only...