Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest increase is in pork, which accounts for about half of all U.S. meat sales. This year 105,500,000 hogs will be shipped off to slaughter, far & away the biggest killing ever, 24% above last year. Hog raisers got this increase by a very simple process: they kept 1,500,000 sows off the market last year and put no halters on their love life. Since the average sow bears 13 piglets a year, this is adding 20,000,000 porkers to the 1942 supply...
...substitution of subsistence for cash crops by the rural population has bitterly disappointed the Japanese military. In Free China, however, agriculture has prospered. Crop yields have increased 30 per cent, and cooperative societies have sprung up with 8,000,000 members. Villages that used to consider the semi-monthly slaughter of a pig an event now slaughter them daily...
...Germans accused the onetime people of Lidice of routine subversive activities, such as hiding arms and hoarding food. But the deadliest charge against them was that they aided and sheltered the killers of the Gestapo's hangman, Reinhard Heydrich. Besides the slaughter in Lidice, the Germans by week's end had shot 400 Czechs in reprisal for Heydrich's death. They had offered an "appropriate" reward to the informant who would identify Heydrich's executioners. They gave the informant until Thursday of this week to speak his piece; after that, anyone found in possession...
...Chinese catch 300 Japs in a canefield and slaughter them, we leave out the numbers and hail Victory. I've seen more dead Japs than that on Bataan, in one bunch, and it didn't change anything. . . . How would it be to start playing war stories on their merit...
...getting rid of the disturbing mystery that distinguishes its Egyptian counterpart. There are no foreign elements, such as beauty, in this Sphinx. From his vantage point on Chapel Hill, the visitor may catch sight of a giant chess castle. From its summit one gets a clearer view of the slaughter house...