Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Secretary Anderson can no longer count on increasing the supply of meat, he does hope for a better distribution of what is available. To help effect this, he: 1) abolished present quota restrictions on the number of animals that small packers (whose plants are not federally inspected) can slaughter; 2) gave them permission to ship interstate. This should mean more meat for big cities from the thousands of small U.S. packers...
Public opinion at this point seems, as always, to favor the underdog, and leading figures all over the Chahles Rivab Coastline were issuing statement hoping that the News could avoid a slaughter running perhaps as high...
...rmer, was rapidly nearing 1,000,000 since April 1. Yet some did choose death. In Leipzig, the U.S. First Army discovered a grotesque tableau of suicide in the City Hall (see FOREIGN NEWS ). And there was a young sniper captured in Leipzig who talked himself into self-slaughter...
...battle for central Burma was won. Lieut. General Sir William Slim's British and Indian troops had a notable victory. Their Mandalay-Meiktila campaign (TIME, March 19) had broken seven Japanese divisions in what was, by official description, "a merry slaughter." Last week the British Fourteenth Army moved ahead for a swift cleanup of all Burma...
...capture Rangoon. This week General Slim's men were within 220 miles of that final goal. In twelve days they had pierced 70 miles south of Meiktila along the Mandalay-Rangoon railroad, and had overrun the Chauk oil fields, the Japs' biggest fuel source in Burma. The slaughter continued in a series of long thrusts and ambuscades; in the dozen days more than 3,500 Japs were killed...