Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this Christmas...
...turkey at John Luter's $20-a-month seacoast villa. Bureau Chief Carl Mydans who, with his wife, Shelley, spent two Christmases in Japanese concentration camps, expected 15 familyless French, Chinese, British, U.S. and Filipino correspondents to join in. Cabled Correspondent Luter: "After dinner we'll feed the carp in the 100-foot fishpond and sing carols to the accompaniment of a Japanese samisen. It will be an international Christmas in a strangely Oriental setting-but most thoughts will be of home. Cheers...
Because only 12% of Mexico's land will ever be fit for cultivation (though two-thirds of the people now try to live on the land), Orive Alba would be happy if Mexico succeeded only in growing enough to feed herself. But he also holds that opening up new lands will raise the rural standard of life. By providing hydroelectric power, the impressive new dams would also speed up industrialization, thus balancing the ratio of urban to rural population...
...Yardlings. But now that last-minute breakfast stampedes and 1 o'clock lunch hordes alike are handled with speed and dispatch, the union should be able to admit women guests, at least on Saturday nights, without too great a strain. The Houses, also operating well over normal capacity, feed women five times weekly. In addition, the Union management has found that one or two hundred diners more or less make little difference in planning a meal, and admits to a sharp decline in Saturday attendance, probably caused by students off on weekends, which would simplify the problem of guests over...
...winning mount, $15 for a loser), he usually uses a top one, Johnny Longden. But he believes a good exercise boy is more important than a good jockey, and hires the best grooms he can find, at top wages. The rest is a matter of bookkeeping: Willie pays the feed bills and the help, collects $10 a day for each horse, plus 10% of all purses. He will clear $40,000 this season...