Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benefit of other nations." But the faithful of the high tariff flock have been unable to point out a specific case of lowered tariffs or reciprocal agreements adversely affecting American industry. They continue to cry wolf, blind to the lesson they should have learned 15 years ago--that wolves feed on high tariffs and not on low ones...
Morgenthaler could never be mistaken for Nijinsky on a hardwood floor, but he makes baskets, and his cohorts seem to have learned the knack of how to feed him in the pivot position. Neither Barclay nor George Hauptfuhrer, who will probably play Morgenthaler if the Varsity uses a man-to-man defense, would comment yesterday on the Harvard strategy of guarding the Huge Man, but defensive maneuvers have been worked out in practice sessions...
There were a couple of other posers. Britons in general do not like peanuts. And, said a circus man, "Our elephants have never seen a peanut in their lives; British people feed buns to elephants. If we give them rich, oily peanuts, they'll probably get sick...
...buying program. One result: the price of January wheat tumbled 5⅜? a bushel to $2.13½. (On the basis of other futures buying, it would be down to $1.92⅝ by May and $1.75 by July.) With some 4,300,000 cattle fattening in the nation's feed lots (the alltime high, in 1943: 4,445,000), livestock prices in Chicago dropped "to $22.75 a hundredweight, the lowest since meat was decontrolled...
...spent $200,000,000 (up $40,000,000 from the year before). In 1946, some 418,000,000 bushels of grain from Canada's lush wheatland, some 1,250,000,000 lbs. of fish from her coasts, plus vast amounts of beef, pork, oats, barley, had helped feed Canada and the hungry world...