Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprecedented novelty to terrified Kweichow were the Generalissimo's death-hurling U. S. bombing planes. Daily Chiang totaled up the kill-500 men, 2,000, then 5,000 as the pace of slaughter quickened; finally 7,000 slaughtered Chinese butchered in four days. As the Generalissimo's high-minded Nanking government pointed out. "the number of the slain is far less than those who die in a single provincial famine. There is only one way of dealing with Communists...
...might be with the missing Memorial Hall bell clapper now if a member of the Yard Police hadn't surprised the group of roaring rowdies, fresh from the muskrat slaughter in the Yard. But their efforts to roll him, drag him, scrape him away ended ignominiously in the safety of a speeding...
...even Communists deny, Russia's present acute meat shortage is due to Dictator Stalin's policy of "ruthless collectivization" which caused millions of peasants to slaughter and eat their cattle before they were forced to join collective farms and "share everything" (TIME, July 14, 1930). Over a third of all Soviet cattle were thus massacred or exported before Stalin realized his mistake, eased his pressure. Today, because pigs multiply faster than cattle, Soviet collectives are frantically breeding swine. Last week President Kalinin's nearest approach to admitting Dictator Stalin's mistake came when he observed...
...Brooklyn, as he was being led into a slaughter depot, Julius, oldtime brewery horse, snapped his rope halter and dashed in front of a truck to his death. "Suicide," said the magistrate. "Julius was high strung,'' said Owner Andrew Smith...
...Champions. Two days later Campus Idol was prodded out of the Temple's doors, auctioned off to Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. at $3 for each & every one of its 1,140 pounds?highest price fetched since 1929. Shortly Campus Idol will go the way of all steers?to the slaughter house. Kroger announced it would give the well marbled meat to children's charities...