Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, he refused to support any plan which would feed the adult populations, for by doing so, he feels that the United States would merely strengthen a group which is capable of working for the Germans. "The thing to remember," he said, "is that the best weapon England has is an economic war, and that anything which would take the slightest load off the Nazis' shoulders will be a blow to Britain and the United States...
After two months of preparation, including several small meetings, distribution of pamphlets, petitions, and a network program, the Harvard Committee to Feed the Small Democracies is ready to put on a full-dress plea for support at 8 o'clock tonight in the Lowell House Common Room, where four prominent men will discuss all possible sides of the question...
Perhaps. Especially tonight, when the subject was so vital--in the real sense of the word. There were thirty-five thousand children in unoccupied France alone, and Vag knew from his camp days just how hungry kids could get. Should the United States feed them...
...before the Senate this week is another defense appropriation bill. The Army & Navy, with more & more mouths to feed, want to use part of their $4,389,000,000 to buy canned corned beef from Argentina. But they will not be allowed to -unless the Senate knocks out an amendment which persistently appears in such bills as they come from the House...
...Great Plains were plowed and sown to wheat to feed Europe in World War I, and their surpluses have made political trouble almost ever since. To feed Britain this time, the Department of Agriculture has a tougher but more constructive job. As tactfully as it can, it must discourage U. S. farmers from raising such inevitable surplus crops as wheat, corn, tobacco, cotton. It must encourage dairy, fruit and vegetable crops, which have always been side shows for U. S. agriculture. But not only do the British need these crops, the U. S. also needs more of them...