Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even that kind of money is chicken feed to what the U.S. will probably have to dish out to keep ceilings fixed. The $1,000,000,000 figure Senator Brown foresaw last week was just a starter; and if $1,000,000,000 sounds high, Leon Henderson had some stratospheric statistics to justify it: price control, he contended, has already saved the U.S. $6 billion on war expenditures; if the ceilings hold for another 20 months, the U.S. will pay $62 billions less for its war than it would if prices rose as they did in World...
...cruel tyranny is succinctly set forth. They must yield less of the basic peacetime crops (wheat, tobacco, cotton), more of the nutritive foods which raise a people's health to battle strength-fresh meat & vegetables, dairy produce, fruit, eggs, etc. Moreover, they must produce enough of these to feed not only the home front but also its armed forces and allies overseas. Says Food (paraphrasing Secretary of Agriculture Wickard) America's is the "soil which will win the war and write the future...
...spray gun is a fist-fitting gadget which trails three rubber hoses and a ⅛-in. wire-the charge. Two of the hoses feed acetylene and oxygen (as in welding) to a 6,300° F. flame, melting the wire. From the third hose, compressed air blows the hot-metal droplets in a molten mist that coats a surface with a smooth film as tough as a weld...
...Navy's invasion of the Freshman stronghold will affect the numerous activities of the Union is not yet known with certainty. Formerly the newly admitted Freshmen gathered there for a free feed and welcome speeches by relevant Deans and usually a prominent alumnus. A little later in the year (generally after November hours) they were addressed in the Union by President James B. Conant, who informally set forth his ideas on education to his newest wards. These events will not be held in the summer of course, and whether or not the armed forces will occupy the Union into next...
...improvise, it is necessary to place in command of the whole operation younger officers who are not set in their ways . . . who will seek out men who know what has been done in British waters, who by the spirit they possess will energize and inspire the whole campaign." To feed U.S. fears were harrowing ac counts of survivors landed from torpedoed ships at ports from New London to Key West, a May toll of 15 ships sunk in the Gulf alone, the spread of U-boat depredations to the coast of good-neighborly Brazil. U.S. papers, which tabulated their...