Word: swine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago the Turkish Consul-General at New York told the Merchants' Association that his country was "desirous to come in touch with societies interested in hogs." Because pig-flesh is forbidden food to Moslems, he explained, Turkey is becoming overrun with wild swine. Perhaps some U. S. concern would like the concession for de-pigging Turkey...
...succulent the flesh of unborn animals is, few civilized people know.* Civilized sentiment obscurely associated with motherhood generally forbids its eating. U. S. Government regulations have codified that sentiment by prohibiting the marketing of unborn cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses.† There is no medical reason and no stringent religious injunction against such eating. Scarcity of slaughterhouse fetuses, Dr. Elijah Joseph Gordon, slight, swarthy, witty Professor of Medicine at Ohio State University, admitted last week, handicapped him in effecting the experimental cure of two anemia cases this year.** Ordinary liver has become remedy of choice for the anemias (TIME...
...Adriatic from Dalmatia and neighboring Croatia. Croat Raditch shouted in furious, wild speech. Supporting him were the Dalmatian and Croatian deputies. Against him were lined the Serbs and Slovenes: the Government. Finally Croat Raditch roared in what was destined to be his valedictory: "You are not men! YOU ARE SWINE...
...25¢ per bushel (30¢ was the farm demand). Beef went up from 3¢ to 6¢ per pound (farmers wanted an 8¢ rate). Butter was left at 12¢ per lb., whither President Coolidge had temporarily raised it from 8¢. Tariff duties on milk and cream were doubled. Poultry & eggs, lard & swine, vegetables & fruits all moved up proportionately on the new tariff scale...
...year the eggs developed into grubs, which this year will turn into bugs, which next fall will deposit their store of eggs in their three-year cycle. The grubs do more farm damage than the bugs. Hence entomologists, knowing that hogs adore the juicy grubs, urge farmers to pasture swine next year in fields which are June buggy this summer...