Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas the corn crop was estimated at less than one-fourth of normal. Carloads of cattle too emaciated for slaughter were shipped to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia for fattening. Other thousands were slaughtered for canning, but neither of these methods could take care of the numbers laid low by the drought. Cowboys rode out on the ranges, began shooting down starved animals at the rate of 1,000 head...
...other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal to facilitate shackling for slaughter. It is a feat of skill rather than of strength. Neither Dempsey nor Corbett could match the practiced steer-knocker's formula of one knock per steer...
...exercise, Admiral Reeves managed to land a strong detachment of marines at Culebra. The sea-soldiers went shouting up the bluffs, brandishing their bayonets, occupied the island and, temporarily at least, Admiral Reeves appeared to be in command of all Central American waters. The mock destruction and slaughter had been terrific. Actually, the Fleet maneuvers had not been carried out without some real losses. One man had fallen overboard from the aircraft carrier Lexington, drowned. Another had been
...sale of arms to either belligerent. No sooner had the President signed it than he put it into effect by proclamation. In Santiago, Chile, El Impartial pointed out that the U. S., Britain and France were by no means the only countries guilty of keeping the slaughter going. Holland and Norway have sold the fighters rifle ammunition, Denmark. Madsen machine guns. Sweden, Bofors cannon. Spain, Oviedo rifles, Czechoslovakia's Brno Works, automatic rifles. How Paraguay paid for all this remained a mystery. Bolivia has financed the war without recourse to extreme taxation, entirely on tin, her greatest export...
Kirkland, the only undefeated ball club in the House circuit, took the Elephants over the bumps by a 27-2 slaughter in five innings yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. This makes them the chosen ones to engage the winning Yale team on Friday, unless the Deacons drop their game today, thus bringing them into a first-place tie with the Gold Coasters at six games won and one lost...