Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they are the Lord's chosen people. In a romantic interpretation this is the spirit of the soil, mystical, but nourishing and real. In a materialistic psychology the observer might merely comment that the hinds realize that in prosperity or dearth, fair weather or foul, their lands will feed them and save them from the evils to which their stupid incompetence would lead in harsher circumstances...
...announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend $55,000,000 buying up 5,000,000 hogs (4,000,000 young animals, 1,000,000 sows about to litter.) The 5,000,000 hogs will be used to feed the unemployed...
Henry Morgenthau Jr., Governor of the Federal Farm Credit Administration which inherited responsibility for all Government loans to farmers, invoked this old legal provision against Secretary Wallace's Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Farmers owed the Government $139,335,742 for seed, feed and crop production purposes. They owed local agricultural credit corporations another $70,982,175, more than half of which had been in default for years. Of the $64,204, 300 borrowings in 1932, $42,740,721 remains unpaid. Governor Morgenthau figured that crop bounties offered a fine chance to balance his books, get farmers out of debt...
...riding "planter" equipped with a 12 in. "middle buster" and a seedbox filled with Maize or Kaffir, "gee" and "haw" aforesaid mules into their accustomed places between the rows, and at a single operation plow up the government's row of cotton and reseed the row with a feed crop...
Suggested improvements emphasized particularly the slipshodness of daily classes, the lack of eminent and interesting teachers "whose personality can often teach you more than his lectures," and the feed in the Union. Many remarked that there was a preponderance of intellectust entertainment and not enough social opportunity...