Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the partial crop failure, the U.S. had the grain to help feed the world. But the Government did not like to dip down too far into the nation's food bins. If crops were bad next year, the U.S. might need its surplus for itself. Farmers were storing some 70% of their wheat to 1) keep out of higher income-tax brackets this year, and 2) get better prices later on. Some farmers were feeding wheat to cattle and hogs...
...grass farmers, enduring the heat and two hours of speechmaking was no great price to pay for the spectacle before their eyes. Above the dam lay a turquoise lake. Below it, through a creek-bed ordinarily dry at this time of year, tumbled a stream of water, enough to feed 340 miles of irrigation canals and ditches...
...County (Pa.) farm, his wife took one look and turned a "dusty vermilion." He started to explain, "but the poor creature, irrational as only her sex can be, caught up a nest of flowerpots and was trying to get my range. I spent the night doubled up in a feed bin, listening to the mammoths eating me into bankruptcy. ... To date, they have tucked away twelve bales of hay, five blocks of salt and three bushels of a mealy substance weighed out on jewelers' scales. With reasonable economy, every glass of milk I throw a lip over next season...
Assigned to the China-India-Burma theater, Rothenberg spent the summer snaring unclaimed feathered wanderers and retaining the bones. "There was a good feed in it occasionally," he recalls with relish...
...million bu. in two weeks, but still about 500 million bu. below last year's record harvest. But for those who hoped that a better corn crop meant lower meat prices the Department had words of caution: the corn was high in moisture content and low in feed value...