Word: steers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better Feeds, Better Breeds. The same precision carries over from breeding to feeding. In the old days, a steer grazed on its 20 acres of range, with perhaps some casual supplementary grain feeding. The modern cattleman, however, views his animal as a factory-like converter of carbohydrates into a protein food. Depending on weather and range, he may feed the beef a daily ration of two pounds of soy or cottonseed cake, fortified by molasses for energy, bonemeal for calcium, plus iodized salt and vitamins A and D. Antibiotics are added to increase the rate of gain and disease resistance...
...seven to nine months the heifer or bull (castrated into a steer to hasten fattening) is sold to the feedlot operators or to farmers who also specialize in fattening cattle for market. In Warren Montfort's barn in Greeley, Colo., a huge, self-unloading truck moves unceasingly up and down the quarter-mile-long pens, pushing Montfort's special feed mixture into the troughs while a solid line of white faces eat their heads off. Says Montfort: "This is a factory. We manufacture beef and nothing else...
...Union Committee narrowly voted into existence a sub-committee to steer the amendment process, but finally killed a motion requiring this steering committee to poll class opinion...
...paper's cofounder, will become editor in chief of both dailies. There will be no other executive changes, and the papers will keep their local flavor. In keeping with the new style of newspaper empire building, the Ridders tend to leave each paper fairly free to steer its own course...
...weeks at tuning the engine, test-driving the car, turning the tires down on a tire lathe until they were as bald as racing rubber, and perfectly balanced. All Flock had to do to beat his less elaborately prepared competitors was push the accelerator to the floorboard and steer...