Word: steers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most coveted prize among cowmen when he rode the bucking beast against all comers without changing hands on the rein, losing a stirrup or pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites its lip and raises his hands in victory. For the first time in the show's history one cowboy, Fred Meyers of Okmulgee, Okla., won both...
...Three steers, unhappily penned in a truck bound for the slaughter house, one day last week broke loose in a residential district of Pittsburgh, ran crazily about the street. Arthur Hay, 32, an ice-dealer, father of six. shooed a crowd of children to safety, herded one of the steers into a yard. When Iceman Hay seized one of its horns the steer tossed him over the fence, leaped after him, trampled him. Then it turned on one William Busch who tried to rescue Hay. Finally it was roped. A second steer charged Policeman Arthur Jennings, pinned him against...
Finance Minister, Professor Joseph Redlich, recently returned from lecturing at Harvard University. A most able economist and "above party," he is just the pilot to steer Austria into quiet fiscal waters...
...Debt Grapple. Just so long and no longer will a group of European businessmen keep still about "Uncle Shylock.'' The Hoover and Mellon speeches (see below), the daily struggles of Messrs Strawn and Traylor to steer the Congress steering committee, merely postponed the inevitable. Germans grumbled all week behind the scenes about what they now call not War debts but "international obligations.'' The French and Italians got in their able digs. But eventually the British Delegation took over in a fatherly way the job of making U. S. expectations that Europe will pay part of what she owes, seem...
...would prevail in the granting of awards. For the first time it became publicly known that for years certain breeders have been injecting their cattle with subcutaneous matter (oils, paraffin) to fill out sags and wrinkles in their animals carcasses. Even Lucky Strike, last year's grand champion steer, owned by 20-year-old Elliott Brown of Rose Hill, Iowa, who used his prize money to pay off the mortgage on his homestead (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929), was found when slaughtered to have had his hide lifted. Said Chief John R. Mohler of the Federal Animal Industry Bureau: "When...