Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colorless Clement Attlee, whom Churchill once described as a nice, modest little man "who had a good deal to be modest about." Last week the New Statesman and Nation reported that, after Attlee had ably replied to some Churchill needling in the House of Commons, Churchill had remarked: "Feed a grub on royal jelly, and it may turn out to be a queen...
...Long Island, which now raises five to six million Pekin ducks a year-about half the total U.S. supply-duck farmers last week were half-wishing the Emperor had kept his ducks. Their feed costs were the highest ever, but the price of ducks had dropped 13% in a month. Now, at the peak of their season, Long Islanders are shipping some 200,000 ducks a week to market. But wholesale prices have fallen to 26? a pound, 2½? below the old OPA ceiling...
...money in the bank (or sock), their deficits by money owed the bank (many of them borrow at the start of the season). Last week, most of them thought they were losing money, but none knew for sure. This much they did know: a duck eats 25 pounds of feed in the nine weeks it takes to reach the five-pound-plus marketing size. At $100 a ton for feed, that is $1.25 for a duck which now brings around $1.22½ at the commission house...
...they went to Washington with their bids, the Department of Agriculture told them that it might not buy a single mule. It would first have to consult with Mexican officials over what it considered exorbitant prices. Cussing the delay, which would cost them 50? a mule a day for feed, most of the dealers went home to await further word...
...feed the whole world. I don't mind sending them some food when they are hungry, but I'm beginning to wonder whether they work as hard in their fields...