Word: slaughterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst dreams we did not suspect that Israel-in the 20th year since the start of Hitler's slaughter of the Jewish people-would send a stream of weapons to rearm the German army," cried a Tel Aviv newspaper. Israel had contracted to sell 250,000 anti-tank grenade launchers worth $3,300,000 to West Germany's Bundeswehr. Even coalition parties in the government demanded cancellation of the contract, and Premier David Ben-Gurion faced a no-confidence vote in parliament. Threatening to resign if he did not get his way, Ben-Gurion defended the deal...
...wait for him to turn around. He clipped him with a left hook, then smashed a right over the ear. Patterson fell. Five times more Patterson lurched gamely to his feet, and five times more Johansson smashed him down. At last Referee Ruby Goldstein called off the slaughter, and the freshest grin in boxing flashed over the unmarked face of Johansson...
...research team at Munich's Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry imported 1,000,000 silkworm cocoons from Italy and Japan, opened them up with razor blades, separated the pupae of 310,000 females from the males. What followed, in the words of one researcher, was "a mass slaughter, and not for the fainthearted." Each tiny pupa was disemboweled, the scent glands carefully cut out. Male moths served as lab assistants: when they were placed near fractions into which the gland material had been divided, their fluttering wings told the scientists which parts contained the magic substance...
...closer home. At the same time, the spread of new highways and the upsurge of the trucking industry offset Chicago's advantage as a rail center. Livestock production spread east and south. In World War II, rationing and price control, strictly enforced in Chicago, encouraged behind-the-barn slaughter throughout the farm belt. Once broken of the habit of shipping to Chicago, many farmers never went back. By 1954 there were 2,367 separate packing establishments in the U.S., nearly double the prewar number...
Buffeted on all sides, Chicago packers made heroic attempts to cut costs by automating, but their big, old (up to 80 years), crazily laid-out buildings defied modernization. Even so, Chicago's competitors in other markets believed the city might have held on if its slaughtering operations could ever have stabilized at some reasonable volume. But nothing Chicago did could stop the drain. Whereas in the 1920s Chicago marketed and slaughtered up to 18 million head of cattle, sheep and pigs annually, this year its marketings are expected to be only 5,000,000. Some 2,000,000 head...