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Adonis & Hercules. Although Pigs waddles rapidly through world porcine history in a hurry to concentrate on U.S. hogs, it nevertheless roots up enough factual truffles along the way to qualify for its ambitious title. The pig, "the most primitive form of domestic mammal that exists today," is 39 million years older than million-year-old man. Boars charge about wildly through ancient mythology; one of them killed handsome Adonis, another was captured alive after a mighty struggle with hefty Hercules. About 5,000 years ago, the Chinese were already eating domestic swine, along with dogs and fowl. When France...
...Mortgage Lifter. Before they plunge into their descriptions of breeds and crossbreeds and their careful detailing of modern packinghouse procedures, Authors Towne and Wentworth attempt to lift their hero out of the sty and onto the pedestal. A pig, they say, can swim, pull a small cart, even substitute for a bird dog or a child's pony. And he can be housebroken : "By nature he is one of the cleanest of animals...
...Perhaps little heed will be given any defense of the animal," say Pigs' authors with a touch of bitterness, "and people will continue to libel him to the end of his days. But when that end comes, what a turn-about-face! When pig becomes pork, what eulogies, what panegyrics...
Open-hearth furnaces melt together pig iron, scrap steel, iron ore and limestone. The carbon is oxidized by the oxygen in the iron ore and goes up the stack as carbon dioxide. Other impurities are absorbed by the limestone slag on the surface of the molten iron. U.S. Steel's new "Turbo-Hearth" furnace blows jets of air across the surface of a pool of molten pig iron. The oxygen in the air combines with the impurities, removes them from the iron, turns the iron to low-carbon steel. This method is not very different from the Bessemer process...
...general arrangements were very rough. Lower boys had to pig it in form rooms or class rooms where there was no privacy and a good deal of opportunity for bullying . . . The games worship was at its height . . . No one was considered anything unless he was good at games, and the result was to create an inferiority complex in the unathletic...