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A total of 192 heifer calves were purchased during a 2-to 3-wk period from local stockyards.
It was shot in 16 mm Cinemascope in the wastelands of Winnipeg's St. Boniface industrial stockyards.
We've been busting our humps schlepping our out-of-town visitors to tattoo parlours and stockyards.
The plant would be built in the city's stockyards area and eventually employ about 1,000 people.
The waste produced by industrial concentrations of animals in stockyards and factory farms continues to strain sewage facilities.
Presumably there were no sites left among the pungent stockyards of the Byres Road.
The automobile assembly plants in Detroit, the flour mills in Minneapolis, and the stockyards in Chicago were all urban institutions.
It would shut down a few key ranches, and that could be the end of our stockyards in OK Falls and things like that.
By 1917, almost one-quarter of the 45,000 workers who labored in the Chicago stockyards were black.
They bore into 20th century Chicago, taking us from the stinking stockyards to the polling places where precinct captains often accompanied voters into the booths.
All usual loading devices like europallets, mesh box pallets will meet optimal stockyards.
To the ugly-American eye it looks like a vast and patchy soccer field, bordered by stockyards, grain silos and the clanging docks of Port au Spain.
The first major efforts to bring unskilled laborers into the AFL-in the Chicago stockyards and in the steel industry nationally-were led at the end of the war years by William Z. Foster, a longtime syndicalist activist.
The stench of the stockyards no longer wafts across the southern reaches of the city, but Chicago remains the place through which much of the Midwest's produce passes, and where farm commodities are bought and sold.
It originated from Michigan, but its entry into the stockyards in Chicago turned it into an epizootic.
Later he would give a course at Swarthmore on what he had seen in his travels in the USA, drawing attention to the truly appalling conditions he had found in the stockyards.
Much of the city, including railroads and stockyards, survived intact, and from the ruins of the previous wooden structures arose more modern constructions of steel and stone.
Louis area, Omaha, and Kansas City had huge stockyards, waystations for cattle and pigs on their way East to the cities of the coast and North to the Great Lakes.
My uncle would go to the auction over at Logan County Stockyards on the edge of Booneville and get a couple of shoats.
The Packers and Stockyards Act prohibits undue price preferences and grants USDA broad authority to stop unfair trade practices in their incipiency.
Examples from Classical Literature
One very remarkable minor feature was the appearance of couch-grass and horehound, which had sprung up around the stockyards.
At a crossing we noticed, in the direction of the stockyards, a gigantic pillar of smoke.
The company aims to achieve this objective by setting up stockyards across the country.
So he came at last to the stockyards, to the black volcanoes of smoke and the lowing cattle and the stench.
In the stockyards this was only in national and state elections, for in local elections the Democratic Party always carried everything.
Rendell today visited the historic Lancaster Stockyards to show how state investments can leverage private sector funds to revitalize communities while creating new jobs.
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