Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Briefly recapitulating, this plan would solve the meat shortage in the College, help to solve the housing shortage feed the handicapped of Boston, and save countless hours of intense effort on the part of men, women, and deans...
...Great Circle survey flights to the Orient. Trippe's agents roamed south, east and west lining up the exclusive landing franchises that paved the way for mail contracts. In island chains and jungles, his crews hacked out airports, strung together radio and weather networks. The better to feed his mushrooming lines, he formed a brood of subsidiaries and affiliates, of which he still has 18; the biggest are Pan American-Grace Airways and Panair do Brasil.** Whenever competitors tried to horn in, quick-thinking, quick-moving Juan Trippe managed to outfly them, outflank them or simply outlast them...
...tell you it makes me sick to my stomach seeing all those suckers drive down from New Hampshire and Maine and Boston and Connecticut just to watch a bunch of goats limp around a small-time track for feed money...
...Angeles' Biltmore Hotel was rife last week with the easy slur of Southern accents. In the haze from their cigars, big cottonmen from the South gleefully watched pretty models step in & out of cotton garments, parade cotton bathing suits, evening gowns and house dresses nimbly converted from cotton feed bags. The National Cotton Council, for the first time since it was formed in 1938, was holding its annual convention in California...
Nevertheless, delegates wondered how long the gravy train could keep running. They discussed ways of boosting their markets by 1) removing the legal restraints from margarine (which uses cottonseed oil); 2) pushing the sale of cotton bags for feed by using prints convertible to dresses (TIME, Jan. 31); and 3) getting ECA to step up 1949 exports (which would otherwise be the lowest since the Civil War). The cotton growers, who use about 10% of all fertilizer, also looked at the big use of paper bags by that industry, estimated that judicious pressure there alone could step up cotton consumption...