Word: pig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supplied her with 70.4% of her scrap iron and steel, 60.5% of her oil and gasoline, 41.6% of her pig iron, 92.9% of her copper, 48.5% of her machinery and engines, 91.2% of her autos, trucks and parts (latest available figures...
Wheat and cotton are cash crops. Not so, corn. Nearly nine out of ten bushels are used to feed hogs and livestock. The lower the price, the more feed for hogs; the more hogs, the lower the price of pork. With corn at 40? there should be many pigs in 1940. If next spring's pig crop reaches 80,000,000 little grunters, pigs and pork prices will nosedive, and Washington will have still another quota on its hands...
...gadgets which are placed on each side of the throat against the larynx. These gadgets transmit the sound vibrations to the larynx, so that the sound comes out of the throat as if produced there. The sound is shaped into speech by mouthing the desired words. Thus a grunting pig, relayed through the human voice-box, can be made to observe: "It's a wise pig who knows his own fodder...
Caught between AAA pig purges and the historic drought of 1934, the pig population of the U. S. took a mighty tumble. In 1933, when little pigs first got the attention of Franklin Roosevelt's planned agricultural economy, the porker crop was a whacking 84,200,000. For 1935 the crop fell to 55,086,000 and pork prices soared (peak: $10.95 per cwt. in September). Since then the crop has increased every year...
...Three days after the estimate was announced, July lard futures fell to 5.7? per pound, a five-year low. Average hog prices in Chicago, which last month hit a five-year low ($6.02½ per cwt.) will not feel the 1939 crop until this fall when pigs farrowed this spring begin to go to slaughter. Chief beneficiaries of the booming pig population: the corn farmers, 40% of whose product will go to fatten hogs for a glutted pork market. But their returns are not likely to be handsome. For 1939 nature has been bountiful beyond New Deal rules...