stockyard

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In that regard, the terrain of Spokane was as rich as a Chicago stockyard or a central California migrant-labor camp.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2020

He moved to Peoria, found stockyard work and eventually became recreation director at a community center.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2020

Merwin examined his own mind in “Plane” and found it “infinitely divided and hopeless/like a stockyard seen from above.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2019

Grandin sees the plant layout as she speaks, adding the hand-cranked submarine doors gleaned from war movies, the pumps from every stockyard and farm she’s seen since she was a child.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2013

Chicago was on the move, becoming biggest at just about everything: world’s biggest lumberyard, world’s busiest grain center, and, when the Union Stock Yard opened in 1865, the world’s biggest stockyard.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield