Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile hapless Ethiopia last week had made friends out of Yugoslavia and Italy, traditional foes. Needing grain to feed the Italian troops now embarking for Africa, Premier Benito Mussolini is placing huge grain orders in Yugoslavia. At the port and frontier city of Susak, where Italian and Yugoslav guards with fixed bayonets have glared at each other for years across barbed wire entanglements, suddenly last week Yugoslavian wheat began to pour in a golden tide onto Italian ships, paid for with Il Duce's pegged-to-gold lire...
...female yak is a delightful animal. She waits until the male gets through eating before she will touch food. The expression in her eyes while she watches the male eat is beautiful. . . . All the animals know me and talk to me in their own languages asking for food. They feed these animals hay and grain and meat when what they need and crave is fresh vegetables. Think of all the castor oil they've had to give the elephants because they let them have peanuts and candy and stuff like that. The poor animals are mistreated. They are imprisoned...
...Noted that Sir John Simon, "the Empire's Highest Feed Lawyer" did not forget that he is now Home Secretary, having been demoted from Foreign Secretary. Sir John made his debut in Home Affairs on the issue of chain letters, a racket now spreading from the U. S. throughout Great Britain. Famed for his ability to speak learnedly on any subject without committing himself to either side, the Home Secretary toyed with the question whether in Great Britain chain letters are legal or illegal. "I may observe," said the Great Lawyer, "that certain types of snowball schemes, to which chain...
...Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...
Last August Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, surveying a map of 1,100 counties in 22 states burned crisp by Drought, remarked that a food shortage was not nearly so serious as a feed shortage. Last week the feed shortage had produced what looked very much like a food shortage. To be sure, there was enough wheat for bread, potatoes were plentiful and the fruit and vegetable crops were good. But for the first time in years consumption of beef and pork had practically overtaken supply...