Word: swine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Oakie enacts this part with a naturalness that is commendable. The other roles shatter no illusions, with the exception of that charmingly and competently portrayed by Miss Ginger Rogers. It is true that Gregory Ratoff acts as though he were "casting artificial pearls before genuine swine," but then, as the producer in the plot, he is sitting pretty...
...prestige because the Nazi Party claims to be unique in that its entire Platform is "unalterable." Moreover, since most German department stores are owned by Jews, enthusiastic Jew-baiting Nazi Storm Troopers have been asking louder and louder of late, "Why don't we throw the swine...
...while the farm receives rare animals from explorers and they have at present a South American quoquit which resembles a cross between a raccoon and an ant-eater. Also ench winter the farmers of Wakefield and Beading donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...
Because sows will farrow, because piglets will grow up into fat hogs regardless of Government decrees, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has been hard put to devise a means of reducing the swine surplus comparable to the plow-under of cotton. Last week A. A. A. accepted in principle a price-upping plan from the National Corn-Hog Producers Committee of 25 which had been grappling with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that...
...very substantial processing tax" on all hogs over 235 lb., thus putting heavier swine at a market discount and prompting farmers to sell their pigs before they became huge porkers...