Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany's most profitable export in 1940 was the New Order. In London last week solemn, 38-year-old Richard Austen Butler, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, told Britain's House of Commons what it cost five European nations annually to feed and house Adolf Hitler's armies of occupation. The figures came from published reports of the German Government, except in the case of The Netherlands, where, said Britain's Butler, they must be treated with reserve. The bill...
...earth's oldest and most primitive plants, lacking root, stems and leaves. Fungi also lack the power of green plants to make food out of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and must therefore live off organic matter. So there are two types of fungi: 1) parasites, which feed on living plants and animals; 2) saprophytes, which feed on dead organisms. Pleasant are some fungi, such as the mushrooms (commercially grown on horse manure) which decorate steaks. Valuable are others, like the bacteria which decompose dead organisms, fix nitrogen in the soil, promote fermentation.* Harmful to man are fungi which...
Horse. In Redmond, Ore., Mechanic Roy Shelton and his small son whisked down the highway in a vintage buckboard behind the most remarkable horse since Pegasus (see cut). It averaged 15 miles an hour, and a gallon of gas was feed enough for a day. Though he never had to shoe his horse, Inventor Shelton confessed it was occasionally necessary to change a tire...
...program was of value only to the people being fed, Hitler would certainly not allow the prestige of the democracies to be built up at his own expense. Goebbels' propaganda would easily take the form: "America approves the New Order. By helping Germany feed the people under her sphere, America is giving active support to the New Order...
...fitting set of store teeth. As an M.P. she has spruced up considerably, but keeps her tart oratorical ability. Typical was her maiden speech: "I feel very much qualified to speak upon this question of relief because for three years I have lived upon relief. I had to feed a family of five-listen carefully-upon $11.25 a month." The family she referred to is made up of the Saskatchewan farmer she married and their three children. English by birth, Mrs. Nielsen was trained as an art teacher, taught in Saskatchewan schools before she was married...