Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced, July lard futures fell to 5.7? per pound, a five-year low. Average hog prices in Chicago, which last month hit a five-year low ($6.02½ per cwt.) will not feel the 1939 crop until this fall when pigs farrowed this spring begin to go to slaughter. Chief beneficiaries of the booming pig population: the corn farmers, 40% of whose product will go to fatten hogs for a glutted pork market. But their returns are not likely to be handsome. For 1939 nature has been bountiful beyond New Deal rules and a large crop...
...world grew more & more war-busy, but Auto-Ordnance had no salesmen in Spain, in China, in other places of slaughter. Thompsons, manufactured by Colt Arms under contract from Auto-Ordnance, lay in boxes packed in cosmolene, waiting for uninvited buyers. But the demand for them began to grow. The U. S. mechanized cavalry now has 400 of them. Mechanized units in many another up-&-coming army bought them...
...Thermopylae, a narrow strip of dry shore between the cliffs of Mount Oeta and the swampy border of the Maliac Gulf. Hearing that a big detachment of Persians had found a way around the pass, Leonidas sent 5,000 soldiers to head them off. Xerxes then effected a great slaughter against the remaining Thermopylae defenders...
...citizens who could not otherwise enjoy them. No one can deny that in this attempt, the Administration has made mistakes, has been guilty of extravagance and short-sightedness. No such tremendous effort, newly launched, can deny its feet of clay. Certainly these defects warrant reform, but not the slaughter which bloodthirsty senators demand...
...that slaughter is imminent since Federal Arts, affecting comparatively few people, have few defenders. The strongly individualistic professional class knows no such politically powerful organizations as labor or Big Business. Instead they are content to sit contentedly in their ivory towers and watch their interests, less directly the interests of the whole country, guillotined by Congressional executioners...