Word: slaughtered
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...main trouble is that OPS has put ceilings on every form of beef except the live animals. Since there is no way to set such a ceiling (it is impossible to grade beef before slaughter), livestock prices have gone right on climbing...
Pugnacious General James Van Fleet "was eager for the Communists to jump off with their offensive - if they were ever going to. Said he grimly: "A Communist offensive would give us the chance to slaughter them. That way we could get them in wholesale lots, and not have to kick them piecemeal out of the hills the way we are doing...
...bill was the work of a Southern Democrat-Republican coalition against him, so he couldn't really put the blame simply on the G.O.P. He tried to get the same effect by concentrating his fire on two Republican amendments: the Butler-Hope amendment, wiping out slaughter controls on beef, and the Capehart amendment guaranteeing business a pre-Korea profit, which the President characterized as "like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake...
...Slaughter Controls. Ends government authority to say how many animals a man may slaughter for market. Some Senators, tardily impressed by the argument that slaughter controls are necessary to keep down black marketing, are taking a second look, may yet try to restore this authority in a separate bill...
...hundred and fifty men." It begins late in 1939, when the corvette Compass Rose, "a fiddling bloody little gash-boat," is commissioned. A few halcyon runs, and then the U-boats come. On one ghastly trip to Gibraltar, a convoy of 21 merchantmen is reduced to seven-a slaughter with all too many counterparts in wartime reality...