Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple. Public opinion was not so much like a river that flows in one direction, but divides on the rock of a principle, as it was like a maelstrom. Men who wanted with all their minds to give all aid to England wanted also with all their hearts to feed Europe-which would break England's blockade. Men who wanted to stay out of war with Germany also wanted to send the U. S. Navy to convoy shipments of war materials to England...
...from his prospector father, were no longer big enough to pay the interest on their debts and his. By 1939 he was in hock to the banks, and employed as editorial director of his own newspapers at a yearly salary of $100,000. For Mr. Hearst, that was chicken feed...
...industry expanded, but not enough. Soon outsiders were creeping in-with no better results. G. M. went painfully into chicken-feed production with its liquid-cooled Allison. Packard bravely took the $125,000,000 British Rolls-Royce order that Henry Ford turned down. In November, Ford himself, who had earlier talked of 1,000 planes a day, took a $122,000,000 order for Pratt & Whitney Double Wasps. His engineers went to Hartford to find out how to make them...
Charlie, Harry, Russell & Co. have done the job so well that Hollywood is now considered the third largest news source in the U. S. More than 400 reporters, from matter-of-fact A. P. to Paul-Prying fan magazines, now scavenge Hollywood for tidbits to feed millions of readers. To keep them happy, Hollywood studios maintain vast publicity departments filled with smooth-writing ex-reporters, quick-smiling "contact men," expert photographers, menial flunkeys...
Meanwhile the Australian Government sent agents to the Americas to see what the prickly pear's natural enemies were. The agents investigated about 150 insects that feed on cactus and nothing else, set a few of the most promising to work in Australia. By far the most potent destroyer proved to be a little moth borer, Cactoblastis cactorum. The larvae of this insect eat the inside of the pear plant, even the roots, and their depredations promote rotting due to bacteria and fungi. Armed with strings of moth borer eggs glued to strips of paper, fieldworkers swarmed through prickly...