Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more plant eaters than flesh eaters. Chief vegetarians of the oceans are copepods-tiny, flealike crustaceans related to lobsters and crabs. Copepods browse on the vast, undulating pastures of diatoms, converting plant life into animal life. Thereafter the cold, predatory struggle of the seas begins. On the copepods feed small fish like herring. On these feed larger fish like cod, as well as marine birds, seals, whales. Thus the importance of diatoms...
...Fish, birds, seals, whales follow the diatoms up and down the seas. When biologists have found the causes of the diatoms' mysterious shifts, they may be able to advise fishermen where the best catches can be netted, and how large future catches will be. Newly hatched fry often feed on diatoms before becoming carnivorous. Poor pasturage can mean survival of few fry, poor catches for fishermen...
...order to increase understanding of the Hoover Food Plan, an impartial round-table discussion of the question will be broadcast tonight at 9:30 o'clock on a Crimson Network program sponsored by the Harvard Committee to Feed the Five Small Democracies of Europe...
...offered the services of German Army units stationed in occupied France. Don Ramón accepted gratefully. German officers hurried to Santander by train and a motorized column rumbled across the bridge at Hendaye. With the column were 500 technicians, engineering and hospital equipment, enough field kitchens to feed 30,000 persons...
Dietitians agree that it takes 3,000 calories a day to feed a 150-lb. man adequately, 4,000 if he is a laborer. The victuals allowed on the ration card provided 950 calories. Nutrition experts grimly watched France lose its health, forecast increases of tuberculosis and influenza...