Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once a farmer like Mr. Rhinehart but in 1939 the Germans took my property away and in 1945 the Soviet-Polish regime took it again for themselves. How gladly would I accept the place of a laborer on a farm like the one of Mr. Rhinehart, and feed the chickens for him, because I cannot do much hard work - being feeble and middleaged. Please do not forget about us D.P.s from many European countries...
...times a kind of megalomania seemed to possess her. At a dinner party she remarked to a friend: "You see those s.o.b.s dining in my home. As long as I can feed them, serve them champagne and have a larger bank account than theirs, I can buy and sell even their souls...
There are three lines of pillboxes around Changchun. At the outermost, Nationalist soldiers subject every departing refugee to rigid inspection. The authorities are glad to see civilians leave, since there will be fewer to feed, but no one may take anything metallic such as pots or pans (scrap for bullets), gold or silver (representing forbidden speculation or flight of currency) or salt (vital commodity...
Traders in corn, the prime feed for U.S. livestock, had expected a good crop-but nothing like the bumper yield forecast in the Department of Agriculture's first official estimate. Conditions as of July 1 indicated a 1948 corn harvest of 3,328,862,000 bushels, 39% over last year's dried-out crop and 2% more than 1946's record...
Prospects of early price cuts in meat were also out. With an abundance of feed on hand, farmers this fall would hold back more than the expected number of animals for breeding and fattening, pushing the low rate of meat production still lower and prices still higher...