Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most curious incident in history for a high official to employ his soldiers in cutting dikes to make a neighboring State inundated, thus rendering the slaughter of people an amusing pastime...
...reprisal King Feisal's commander on the Irak-Syrian frontier, fierce Bekir Sidqui Beg, hired Kurds to reenforce his troops and started a slaughter of all Assyrians he could lay hands on, despite the fact that wolf-raiding Rebel Yaku headed a band of not more than 1,000 Assyrians, whereas the Assyrian minority in Irak numbers 40,000, mostly peaceful. In a few days of fanatical Mohammedan slaughter 600 Assyrian villagers were put to the sword, according to British investigators. In Bagdad suave Irak Premier Rashid Ali Beg called the British reports "exaggerated," partially confirmed them when...
...slaughter in 46 days of 1,000,000 sows weighing 275 Ib. or more. That would reduce next year's pork supply by 5,000,000 unborn pigs. Packers would pay producers a premium of $4 per sow. With hogs now selling at about $4 per cwt., a 275-lb. sow would thus bring...
...slaughter in 46 days of 4,000,000 pigs of 100 lb. or less, thus preventing their glutting the market later at twice their weight. To induce sales, packers would pay above-the-market prices on a sliding scale from $9 per cwt. for 40-pounders or less down to $6 per cwt. for animals between...
...Trick Currelly, called the colorful collection "effective anti-war propaganda. . . . Just as in arms and armor the diabolical nature of the whole thing is revealed, so we will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms and the romance he drew around war brought entire battalions to their slaughter. . . ." (In 1930 German Nazi collectors of toy soldiers called toy soldiers "the best of all means for fostering thought of preparedness and counteracting the weak-kneed pacifism so prevalent in Germany these days...