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Word: feed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world could not feed itself. The U.S., Canada, Argentina and Australia, representing only 8% of the world's population, were supplying 90% of the world's food exports. They would have to do better or the world would starve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Greater Danger | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...model for the states of Sinaloa, Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, is to add thousands of square miles of newly arable land (see map). That, he hopes, will not only ease the pressure of population, but will yield corn and wheat enough to enable Mexico at last to feed itself. Chances are that most of these acres will be developed as small tracts, under private ownership. Significantly, Aléman's first agrarian measure was a law protecting the medium-sized farms that survived the land expropriations from the threatening encroachment of ejidos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Good Friend | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...other settlement poses such problems for the council. Most are minute colonies which shift with the fox population (which in turn shifts with the migrations of lemmings, on which foxes feed).* All are satellites of the Hudson's Bay Company's 42 trading posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: New Deal | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...opposition to the Truman Doctrine was vehement. It came from isolationists like the New York Daily News, from pacifists like the National Council for Prevention of War, from Russophiles like Senator Claude Pepper, from liberals like Fiorello LaGuardia, who would feed the starving of Greece but leave Greece's Communist troubles to U.N. It came from such Red outposts as the Daily Worker and the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. But for all its vehemence it was scattered. No one man had yet sounded the cry around which all factions could rally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Rallying Cry | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Sailors' scuffles are a familiar story in many a port, and in Latin America they have often helped feed anti-U.S. feeling. The Pérez story was another case of a friendly visit marred by hoodlums in uniform. Said a Monte sidewalk philosopher: "It's a pity these sailors should have picked on Uruguay, the only country in South America that really likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Friendly Visit | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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