Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With steers beginning to jam stockyard pens and hogs flooding to market, the U.S. Government moved to put more meat on U.S. platters. It did this by lifting quotas on livestock slaughter so that the stockyard pens could be cleared. It also lowered ration points on many meat items...
...what . . . about the fact that every war in our nation's history has been followed by a moral breakdown? . . . Can it reasonably be expected that the most scientific methods of killing and slaughter that are known to man and are being taught to this generation will not have their awful results after this...
Regular notes were kept of the movements of warships in Stettin harbor, the number of troop trains passing through Stettin to the Russian front. Desperate, grandiose plans were conceived for a mass jail break and the ruthless slaughter of German civilians...
...Diego's Balboa Park Zoo, there was a quiet shift in emphasis: two horses marked for slaughter now pull a plow in the victory garden. Top billing at San Diego still goes to Ngagi, the slow, silent, 639-lb. gorilla. Ngagi's cage mate, Mbongo (645 lb.), died last year; he now has a lady friend, a mere shrimp named Kenya...
...Thoroughly enjoyed reading of the "coldblooded slaughter." I am also in favor of burning "the paper cities of Japan...