Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food that goes to Hawaii will probably not only feed the populace, but also afford a chance to save the factors' crops. The ships that carry supplies to the Islands may well take back sugar or pineapples instead of returning in ballast...
...were like men trying to chew their way through a tough steak with toothless gums. If Hong Kong's defenses held long enough, China might mass enough infantrymen to besiege the Japanese from the rear. But that depended partly on how many days Hong Kong could live and feed itself...
...FEED MAYTAG...
...production, which hit its peak in 1939, has gone downhill ever since. At war with the U.S., Japan cannot increase this production. Only change likely in her dervish economy is the removal of some cotton and silk workers, their markets gone, back to the rice paddies, to try to feed the population...
Next to moving them, toughest problem is to feed the men en route. Some trains will be 14 to 16 cars long, with 600-800 passengers; even if there were enough dining cars in the U.S., their use would be unpractical. Stewards of all roads have held many a meeting. Result: more than 250 baggage cars have been fitted out with portable gas stoves and converted into mess cars, to serve hot coffee, soup, sandwiches, pies. Coffee will cost 5?, sandwiches and pies 10?. Some Western roads will stop the trains while men eat in station restaurants, others will...