Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other U.S.-aided attempts to wipe out aftosa by killing all infected and exposed cattle had bogged down against the iron-hard resistance of the Mexican campesinos (TIME, Dec. 8). So slaughter was replaced by quarantine and vaccination; a part of the substitute plan is the fence now abuilding. From a starting point on the Gulf of Mexico, it will run across the states of San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas, then southwest to the Pacific at Puerto Vallarta. North of the line, which is guarded by more than 15,000 Mexican soldiers, 1,000 Mexican and U.S. technicians, there...
...necessity of sticking a needle into their animals every six months, Mexico hopes at least to control aftosa. U.S. experts are bearish, point out that the quarantine-vaccination method has failed in Europe. Like most U.S. cattlemen, they believe that the only cure for aftosa is wholesale slaughter...
Navy salvaged three events from the slaughter. Midshipman Kanakanul, freestyler specialist for the sailors, took the 50 and 100 races...
Relaxed during their mid-season breathers, the freshman basketball and hockey teams have the tough half of their menus successfully stomached, with only one distasteful morsel apiece, a sloppy basketball loss of 49 to 35 to B. C., and a 9 to 4 ice slaughter at Bruin hands to spoil their siestas...
...Dame was 1947's team of the year, did they? Crisler was out to set the record straight-by beating Southern California worse than Notre Dame had (38 to 7). On grass sprayed with paint to look even greener (for this was in Southern California), the Rose Bowl slaughter continued before 93,000 surprised witnesses...