Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strategy. Three times in the 77th Congress the farm bloc had been whipped in its effort to write the cost of farm labor into the farm parity formula. Last week the House Agricultural Committee quietly approved a bill which would do it all over again. Although the bill would add another $3½ billions to the nation's food costs, the committee did not bother to ask the opinion of OPA Boss Prentiss Brown-who had fought the issue as a Senator last year-or of Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes. Said the bill's sponsor, Georgia...
...bodies which exist day after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes of China have to draw their fats, vitamins and carbohydrates. Only the northern troops of provident General Hu Tsung-nan have any health, for he made his men grow their own greens to add to their scant rations...
Some of this was sensible, as far as it went. But it left untouched one aspect of the farm & food crisis more conspicuous than any other. This year U.S. farmers plan to seed 52.5 million acres to wheat and 22.5 million acres to cotton. Thus they may add 73 million bushels of wheat, nine million bales of cotton to the stupendous carryovers of these two crops the U.S. has already. This senseless task will take uncounted numbers of men and machines. A man with the requisite political guts and power to force these acreages into the production of crops...
Last week there were signs that CAP's seagoing airmen had another and more exciting job to add to reconnaissance for submarines and torpedoed seamen...
...been at different times both at the receiving and transmitting end of the Crimson operations, I add a word of greeting to the many that will reach the editors on the occasion of its seventieth birthday. A few of these will be spoken; but many more will be left unsaid--from past editors, from members of the faculty, from administrative officers, who recognize the contribution which the Crimson has rendered to the life of the University as a whole as well as the College...