Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a matter of hours he had lined up his staff. He got David Noyes, former advertising executive, former adviser to WPB, out of bed in Los Angeles. "Dave," said Chuck, "we've got a job to feed the hungry. When can I expect you?" Said Dave: "On the next plane...
...Food Committee spelled out the story in convincing detail: because of poor crops abroad, because of a sharp drop in U.S. corn production, Europe now faced a food shortage of 4.5 million tons in grain alone. If scarcity of U.S. corn meant that farmers would turn to wheat to feed their hogs and cattle, the gap would increase by another two million tons. The committee counted on other exporting nations to boost their quotas, on hungry Europeans to tighten up on their own food-collection systems...
...nine of the 20 acres, and eight tons of feed worth ?1,200, had already been plowed under. As the tractor-driver reversed his machine and drove it out of the field, he shrugged his shoulders. "I have my orders," he said...
...most confident of Latin American countries, is full of the desire for better food, better education, more comforts. That is the legacy of the Revolution. But its hopes are still far from fulfillment. Land reform is 30 years old-but Mexico does not yet raise enough food to feed itself. War-born industries are wobbly. Unemployment is growing. Furthermore, in recent months, nature has been anti-Mexican. Aftosa, the destructive foot-&-mouth disease, has crippled the basic cattle industry. A locust plague has stripped the Tehuantepec Isthmus. There has been widespread drought. There have also been torrential rains that have...
...Chicago Brass Manufacturer Marshall Merkes announced that he had bought the remaining inventory and blueprints of the fabulous Duesenberg automobile from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Co. Merkes hired the late Fred Duesenberg's younger brother August to design him an eight-cylinder engine with an injection-type fuel feed for a new custom-made Duesenberg. The price: "No less than $25,000, probably more...