Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tens of thousands of "mustangs" and "fuzztails" - the wild descendants of horses that, have strayed from ranches - used to roam the vast sagebrush ranges of the U. S. Northwest. In wilder days, wild horse roundups were carried on periodically for the Portland, Ore. firm of Schlesser Bros., then the world's biggest packers of horsemeat...
...outlaws, salted their meat in 51 -gallon barrels, shipped most of it to Holland and Scandinavia. Hooves, ears, tails were sold for glue and oil; ground bones and scraps for chickenfeed ; hides for baseballs and shoes ; blood for fertilizer; casings for German sausage. Then the day of the wild horse began to wane, and the Schlessers turned to packing beef...
...winter last week finally settled over the "horse heaven" country of central Washington, the weather-wise Yakima Indians had already finished their first wild horse round-up of the year, thus reducing by 200 the estimated 2,500 outlaws still remaining in Oregon and Washington...
Cattlemen and the U. S. Government have two principal reasons for desiring a clean-up of the remaining wild horses: it will save the range for livestock, remove the menace of the dread dourine (genital) diseases often found in wild horses...
...Wild Goose Chase, an imaginative first novel which perhaps deserved more readers than it got, Rex Warner wrote a modern allegory combining athletic prose, adventurous satire, thriller action. Less allegorical and more exciting, The Professor comes nearest to an English It Can't Happen Here, skids nearer plausibility than Sinclair Lewis' political goose-bumper...