Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radios, if any, on batteries, still pump their water by hand or gasoline engine, President Roosevelt last May used his emergency powers and some of his relief billions to set up a Rural Electrification Administration. Its job was to provide farmers with electric lights, electric refrigerators, electric pumps, electric feed grinders. Early this year Nebraska's Senator Norris, No. 1 Congressional lover of electricity, sponsored a bill to lend $100,000,000 a year for ten years to promote rural electrification on a permanent basis. With cries of "Extravagance!" ringing in their ears, New Dealers looked at Senator Norris...
...Contentedest Cow. I never realized before what a prize the milk from contented cows actually is If one were to operate the beast which you describe as a miniature dairy for one year the results would be approximately as follows. Assuming local conditions it would cost about $801 to feed her and pay 4% interest on the initial investment. In as much as this does not include labor of tending, taxes, etc. and the receipts obtained from the sale of her produce are only $469 it is perhaps as well to have a few discontented cows about to cut down...
...period, Daisy gained some 75 Ib., now weighs a little more than 1,700 Ib. Kept in a large box stall, she was carefully guarded against undue excitement. She consumed more than 21 tons of food and unlimited quantities of water. A typical daily ration: 40 Ib. of green feed; 12 Ib. of beet pulp; 25 Ib. of sliced beets; 20 Ib. of silage; 20 Ib. of mixed grain feed; 2 Ib. of molasses. When the weather was good Daisy was allowed to graze for two hours daily...
...problem of the "have" and "have not" countries, as Mr. Frank Simonds used to call them, is fundamental. As long as there are nations in the world which do not possess natural resources or sufficient land to feed their populations, while at the same time other nations have more than enough of both, world peace is an unattainable goal. Slowly but surely educated people all over the world are coming around to Mr. Simonds idea of redistribution. Naturally this proposal will meet with ever stiffening resistance, particularly in the "have" countries such as Great Britain and France, but the idea...
...deaths of three sons who worked in the Gauley Bridge tunnel, claimed : "Shirl's lungs was all gone when they took them out." Later she complained: "We get two dollars a week relief, and I earn one dollar a week takin' in washin'. That helps buy feed...