Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale bulldog looked better fed than most Yale students, who have seen meat only rarely in past weeks...
...reason for the shortage, said the President, was the extraordinary slaughtering in OPA-less July and August to take advantage of zooming prices. "Many of these cattle would normally have been fed to heavier weights," continued ex-cattle feeder Truman, "and come to market during September and October instead of August. Whether price control had been restored or not the glut of meat in summer was bound to mean a shortage in the fall...
Confidently, Mr. Truman saw meat ahead. Grass-fed cattle (chased from high plateaus by cold weather) would soon begin to appear in the markets. Hog feeders, viewing a record corn crop (673,000,000 bushels in Iowa), saw the opportunity to make a profit from feeding to heavier weights, so hogs might be late. But they would be along. "The dire predictions of a meat famine are without basis," said the President: "An increase in prices or the abandonment of price control on meat now would . . . add to rather than solve our difficulties...
Visitors to the 870-year-old Tower of London used to be fascinated by three pairs of ravens that strutted around Tower Green, where so many heads have rolled. A legend, probably the work of one of the Tower guides, has it that the ravens fed off the headsman's victims. More probably they were first attracted by the garbage dumped out of Tower windows until sanitation set in during the 19th Century. When the Tower was opened as a show place, the ravens' wings were clipped, and they also became an exhibit...
...Protestant (undenominational) Christian Century was fed up. It had had great hopes of possible unity between the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. It had bridled when Episcopalians showed signs of reneging on their nine-year-old invitation to Presbyterians to consider union with them. This week, after the Episcopal General Convention at Philadelphia had turned down the report of its Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity (TIME, Sept. 30), the Century let go its safety valve...