Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The Smithfield Show, Britain's largest agricultural exhibition, is normally a roistering barnyard symphony of bleats, moos and grunts. But this year virtually the only sound to be heard in the show grounds at London's cavernous Earl's Court was the occasional roar of a tractor...
Borne by the Wind. Though foot-and-mouth disease is rarely fatal-most animals recover after two or three weeks of painful blisters on the hoof, tongue and inside of the mouth-it strikes fiercely at dairy cattle, sharply reducing their milk production and afflicting them with sterility, heart trouble...
Whenever a single animal comes down with foot-and-mouth, the farm on which it lives and all the surrounding territory in a 15-mile radius are declared "infected areas." At the height of this year's outbreak, most of Scotland was posted and only two English counties north...
Of Mice & Muscles. As losses mounted, farmers, Members of Parliament and editorial writers began to ask if it was still necessary for Britain to stamp out animals along with the disease. Sympathetic to their pleas, the British government is spending nearly $1,000,000 a year on foot-and-mouth...
So far, however, field trials of the Pirbright vaccine have been limited to South Africa, Kenya and Tanganyika, and until a surefire vaccine is discovered, the British government sees no alternative to mass slaughter of infected herds. Chief reason is that to do otherwise would end Britain's profitable...