Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will Nadheray be a slaughter, but Frank-ly a Moravec-tive attack I've never seen," quoth Huey. "Every time Moffie-t hurt, it Raines. I Glynn be wrong today the, I hope...
...caused wholesale pork prices in New York and Chicago to drop an average of 20% since the end of September. Since mid-September, the American Meat Institute reported, all wholesale meat prices had dropped 3?-18? a pound. Retailers have been slow to cut prices accordingly. But livestock slaughter is expected to run high until year's end-the packers' busy season-and its effects were bound to reach housewives fairly soon. (Whether the lower prices would remain when slaughter tapered off was anybody's guess...
More important was the effect on grain. The Government had estimated that 350 million bushels would be needed for livestock feeding this crop year. But the heavy slaughter had cut livestock feeding in the third quarter of this year a third below estimates. So last week the Department of Agriculture lowered its feed estimates to 250 million bushels. Thus, if the Department was right, the grain saving which the Citizens' Food Committee was working toward with such confusion (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would be effected by the reduction in livestock feeding...
...India and Pakistan since mid-August at least 100,000 have died, not of germs or hunger or what the law calls "acts of God," but of brutal slaughter. Scarcely one died in fair combat or with the consolations of military morale...
...Schumann situation is even worse. Kilenyi and Cortot slaughter the etudes symphoniques and Myra Hess distorts the Carnaval, while the toccata, Kreisleriana, and sonatas exist only in ancient and unavailable Victor sets. The other piano works are mostly unrecorded. Liszi and Franck are brutally manhandled by everyone but Petri and Horowitz. Here Louis Kentner typifies the wasted talent: known in America for a few excellent Mozart recordings, Kentner himself considers Liszi his piece do resistance...