Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME'S comment on the "staggering blow" given to the Fourth of July slaughter, (TIME, July 7) has made me mad all over. This is the first I have heard that it was [Edward W. J. Bok who had given the "staggering blow"; as I recall it the Ladies' Home Journal did very little, at least there were other periodicals did more. The Chicago Tribune deserves some credit, certainly more than the Ladies' Home Journal, but has claimed, and had given it, more than the facts warrant. All it did was to publish...
...pastures, fresh corn lands, lush gardens from Virginia to Kansas turned brown and sere. The Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi rivers dwindled to a sluggish standstill. Corn wilted away on stunted stalks. Grass shrivelled up before it could be hayed. Live stock, famished for feed and water, was hustled to slaughter before it died. Fruit and truck rotted. Catastrophe was upon a million farm families...
Defending his orders not to shoot to defend his prisoners, Sheriff Campbell said: "One shot would have been the signal for a terrible slaughter...
...area for longer periods than any other July in recorded U. S. weather history. The drought came too late to affect the wheat crop but it did, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, "much irreparable damage" to corn. Live stock, lacking pasturage and water, was rushed to slaughter houses before it died. The Farm Board prepared plans for "drought loans" to carry husbandmen over until next year...
...McLean, Va., Col. Herbert David pastured a valuable prize calf on his front lawn. A thief carried the calf away in the rumble seat of a motor car, sold it to a slaughter house for $12. Col. David found and bought it back in the nick of time...