Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolutionists everywhere, undermining, raising popular passions, obstructing, subverting and-he feared-eventually revolutionizing the Government. He was as opposed as Herbert Hoover to embargoes and quarantines. We cannot "quarrel our way into their good will," said he. "I hope we shall show . . . that we deem it better policy to feed nations than to starve them." He was double-damned as the spokesman of property-although, like Herbert Hoover, his main aim was to resist ideas which he believed would eventually turn the republic into a tyranny...
...course the transient appeal of the pop number, making for a quick turnover, is the main reason for the boom in this portion of the music industry. Anyone who starts to buy slick discs to feed the hungry jaws of one of those super-charged record changers wearies of most of them so fast he is continually in the market for replacements until either his machine has a stroke or his tastes improve...
With the soybean, as with no other plant, can man feed, clothe and house himself and manufacture countless further articles. The next 20 soybean years may be as incredible as the last 20. Says the U.S. Department of Agriculture: "In spite of extensive investigations, the work of developing this versatile plant to its fullest possibilities is still in its infancy...
...satisfied that the national income will grow up to buy it. He sees a chance to put the U.S. on a proper diet for the first time in all its history. He believes that "food will win the war and write the peace" (TIME, July 21). He wants to feed England, to build up food stockpiles of canned foods, preserved dairy products and dried eggs for the rest of the world to use after the war. But most important to him, he sees a chance to break the back of the regional one-crop system which has been the curse...
...requirements are gargantuan. To get 13,000,000,000 more pounds of milk dairy cows will have to be fed 100,000,000 more bushels of corn and feed grains than ever before...