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...Even the porker, grunting pig latin, lives in a pig style. Why not the carnivorous snail...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: A Matter of Style | 1/19/1965 | See Source »

...Savannah River Valley, there was not a pine bark fish stew or a fat porker barbecue. Work had come to a standstill and people gathered in small hushed groups to discuss the stunning news: their homes, farms and small towns would be wiped out to make way for the Government's $260 million hydrogen-bomb project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Displaced | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...right to build a piggery in which even hogs could eat high on the hog. She proposed to construct quarters for 2,500 pigs, provide the establishment with a high pressure pen-flushing system, air-conditioning units, and atomizers to keep the flies off each and every porker. Snorted a neighboring farmer: "If she grows hogs that smell good they won't be hogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...early 20th Century were shorter on fat all right, but their giant hams were sized to feed an army rather than a family, and they were stringy besides. After World War I, hog breeders went to work again and finally molded today's trim, streamlined 225-lb. porker, with apartment-size hams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homage to Hogs | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...newspapers that signed up for Milton Caniff's new comic strip were buying a pig in a poke. But publishers, who don't buy comics for the fun of it, were sure that it would be a prize porker. They felt certain that the man who made Terry and the Pirates, the best drawn U.S. comic strip, could do it again. Last week Caniff finally told them a little about his new comic (to start Jan. 13): it would be called Steve Canyon and "it isn't a kid's strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not for Kids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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