Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westerners are so unpatriotic as to waste rubber and gas motoring to Yellowstone to feed the bears. Western dude ranches and Eastern roadside inns are whistling in the dark. The long stays, the long trips-to Mexico and Canada, for instance-take more time than most U.S. people have in 1942. Many of the 1,095,000 schoolteachers who did much of the nation's summer traveling have been asked to stay at home and take courses in civilian defense. U.S. businessmen are either too busy or too broke...
Nelson decentralized his staff, turned production over mostly to the Army & Navy, set up a new all-important committee to feed the war machine with raw materials, keep the present lines moving at top speed. To move the produce and to get around the shipping bottleneck, WPB worked toward a huge new fleet of air transports. Now 1943 and 1944 were far away and 1945 was never...
...Dancers at juke joints who dance with anyone who has enough nickels to feed the record-playing juke box and buy them drinks...
...calling for a more democratic form of organization; the Supreme Court upheld the power of the States to outlaw ASCAP by barring price-fixing; the networks won hands down in this fight against ASCAP's high-priced terms. No longer a monopoly, it had to scratch for its feed. Its 1,510 members needed new dignity and new leaders. Genial, dictatorial Gene Buck stood for the old regime. Last month, at the annual ASCAP members' meeting, in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, an enthusiastic ASCAPite proposed that the assembled members rise and intone "God bless Buck" three...
White Housekeepers patched up the linen, cut down old tablecloths into tray cloths and napkins. Leftovers from the White House table reappeared disguised as stew, ragout and hash. Scraps that could not be salvaged went to feed the pigs at Washington's six-acre, cooperative Self-Help Farm. White House trash had gone to the metals-salvage campaign, and a Treasury truck stopped weekly to collect old papers...