Modern History — 1934 to 1966 AD

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1934
To coincide with the Century of Progress World's Fair, Chicago radio station WLS conducts an all-American hog-calling contest.
U.S. food-buying patterns begin shifting to larger consumption of pork and beef, fruits, green vegetables, and dairy products as industrial earnings start to improve.
1935
A Year of the Pig in the Chinese lunar calendar.
1936
Frankfurters made of pork, ice cream and fried clams are the bill-of-fare when restaurateur Howard Johnson opens his first eating place at Orleans on Cape Cod with partner Reginald Sprague.
1937
Porky Pig's first Looney Tune cartoon Porky's Hare Hunt, is released by Warner Brothers. It features the voice of Mel Blanc, who creates the voices of the cartoon's stars, Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny. Audiences are delighted with Bugs Bunny's "What's up, Doc?" and Porky Pig's "Th-th-th-that's all, folks".
SPAM is introduced by George Hormel & Company. This meat product made of pork-shoulder-and-ham will become the world's largest selling canned meat.
Hog bristles formally used in hair, paint and cleaning brushes begin to be replaced with nylon, the first completely man-made fiber, developed by W.H. Carothers working for the patent holder, DuPont.
1939
As WW II breaks out, Britain, the largest buyer of food in the world market, imposes rationing of pork, bacon, beef, cheese, fats, sugar, and preserves in fixed quantities per capita, allocating supplies equally and keeping prices at levels people can afford.
1940
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain. His wife's pet name for him is "Pig", and one of his first official acts is to further ration bacon.
Berlin, gambling that the war will be short, orders wholesale slaughter of Danish livestock to boost German morale with extra "victory rations" and to save on fodder. Hogs numbers are cut by 30 percent, cattle by 10 percent, poultry by 60 percent.
1941
The average fat content of U.S. pork frankfurters is 19%, an increase of only 1% from 1935.
1942
Millions of Europeans live in semi-starvation as German troops cut off areas in the Ukraine and North Caucasus responsible for half of the Soviet pork and wheat production. Food supplies fall to starvation levels in German-occupied Greece, Poland, and parts of Yugoslavia.
1943
The U.S. ships 285 million pounds of canned pork stew, "cvinaya tushonka," to its beleaguered ally, the USSR under the Lend-Lease Act of 1941. During and after the war, a total of one billion pounds of pork are sent overseas to allies under Lend-Lease.
Bacon virtually disappears from U.S. stores and an estimated 20 percent of U.S. beef goes into black market channels. Wholesalers force butchers to buy pork and beef hearts, kidneys, lungs, and tripe in order to get good cuts of meat.
1945
British writer, George Orwell, whose fiction attacks totalitarianism and reflects his concern with social justice publishes Animal Farm, a fable about the failure of Communism. In the book, pigs wrestle control of their farmyard from their human owner.
Harry S. Truman, a former Kansas farmer, is elected 33rd U.S. President. Reflecting on his position, he states "No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile."
1947
A Year of the Pig in the Chinese lunar calendar.
1949
Typical food prices include: a pound of pork 57¢, a bottle of Coca-Cola 5¢, a quart of milk 21¢, a loaf of bread 15¢, a dozen eggs 80¢, a new Cadillac for $5,000 and a gallon of gasoline 25¢.
1950
The comic strip "Peanuts" by St. Paul Pioneer Press cartoonist Charles Schulz begins appearing in eight newspapers. Syndicated by the United Press, Schulz's comic-strip characters include Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, Linus, and Pig Pen.
Charles Towne and Edward Wentworth publish Pigs From Cave to Cornbelt, The Biography of the American Porker, a well researched and factual review of how the American pigs' progress is in one respect a record of the American peoples' progress.
1952
U.S. writer and humorist for the New Yorker, E.B. White, publishes Charlotte's Web, the children's book about a spider named Charlotte and a terrific and radiant, yet humble, pig named Wilbur.
1953
U.S. meat packers begin moving out of Chicago to plants closer to feedlots in the Western U.S.
1954
In a U.S. Government H-bomb test, animals are put on ships anchored around Bikini Atoll, an island in the Pacific. After the blast, the amazing sow, "Pig 311", dives overboard and swims through radioactive waters to shore. After she is retrieved, she ends her days in the Washington Zoo, where scientists are puzzled to find she is sterile.
1959
A Year of the Pig in the Chinese lunar calendar.
1960
Chicago's last packing house closes as meat packers have all shifted their activities to plants closer to western feedlots.
1961
Frederick Sillar and Ruth Meyler publish The Symbolic Pig, an anthology of pigs in British literature and art.
April 17-19 — The Bay of Pigs Invasion is an unsuccessful attempt by about 1,500 Cuban exiles, organized and financed by the U.S. CIA, to topple the revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba.
A world-record litter of thirty-four piglets is born in Denmark.
1965
On Green Acres, a U.S. TV sitcom, a pig portrays a character named Arnold Ziffel and becomes the first pig TV star. He upstages actress Eva Gabor and twice wins the coveted Patsy Award for best performing animal.
1966
Bac-Os, bits of soy protein isolate artificially flavored to taste like bacon, are introduced by General Mills.

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