Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feasted on a temporary glut of pork. But this year the March slaughter of hogs was slightly less than 3.5 million v. 7 million last March. Last week in Chicago, hog receipts were less than 43,000 v. 129,000 for the similar week last year. Packers complained that this was the lowest in eight years. Too late, OPA last week timidly raised the support price...
...Mission area at South Gate as a cross between the frontier and a zoo. The so-called "honey-boats" drifted slowly down the neighboring canal, carrying Shanghai's human excrement to the truck farms. The dusty road was always filled with grunting pigs on their way to slaughter. Under the willow trees old Chinese lay dozing, waiting for their daily lunch of sparrows to get stuck on the bird-limed twigs...
...ceilings for meat on the hoof and comparatively low ceilings for meat on the butcher's block that they are losing money on every pound of pork and beef. Thus, with the greatest cattle herds roaming the ranges in U.S. history, there is no incentive for packers to slaughter them. Sadly, Thomas E. Wilson, board chairman of Wilson & Co., one of the Big Four in meatpacking, agreed. Unless something is done at once, he predicted, the Federal Government will have to take over the packing industry...
...midst of the greatest human slaughter in history, there is a serious shortage of corpses: the bodies of battle victims are not available to medical schools. This wartime shortage is a serious handicap to medical students who, to learn their business properly, should dissect at least half of a human body. Nowadays, a student may get only a quarter of a corpse to himself, often has to watch another dissect...
...like old times last week in Chicago's drab, drafty South Side: the number of beef cattle arriving at the slaughter houses was the highest for any week in February in 26 years. Busy drovers and commission men tallied a total of 57,565 head...