Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible resurge of that spirit which the name of Von Kluck connotes--that spirit which drove Prussia on in 1914, under frenzied leaders and wild ambitions, till her armies were sweeping East and West across Europe like huge machines, and general staffs and supreme commands directed the human slaughter from safe posts in the rear...
...reins of the yearling squad last year, he introduced the intricate Notre Dame system in full force with its trick plays, intricate spinners, delayed spinners and what not, with the result that the first few games went to the opponents. But when the steam roller started to move, the slaughter was ghastly. Darmouth was the first victim and Yale the most glorious. With the extra few days that his players will have this year with the early start, Coach Gallagher hopes to have his team hit its stride long before the Dartmouth clash...
...abundance of beef steaks, veal cutlets, legs of lamb and mutton chops as farmers without forage dispose of their stock. But by 1935 herds will be down to such a point that stockmen will have much less meat for sale. Because of the Government's wholesale slaughter of pigs, pork will be about the scarcest commodity this winter. Where ten pork chops made a 1934 dinner, seven will have to suffice...
...when the Government started to slaughter 200,000 half-starved cattle every week, the tanners raised a terrific howl. And they had a reason: in two months the price of hides had plunged from 9¢ per Ib. to 6¢, seriously threatening the tanning industry. (Shoe prices fall with falling leather prices...
Next day the commission brokers by special permission of the union sold the few thousand head which were privately owned. More Government cattle were shipped to fresh pastures, others turned over to packers for slaughter. A train of Pullman cars was shunted into the yards to house strikebreakers. And 400 scabs, mostly boys from droughty farms eager to earn an honest penny at the risk of a broken pate, watered and fed the cattle, drove them under sheds and viaducts that offered some protection from the blazing sun. In a few days the yards were more than half empty. Thereafter...