Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor woman without resources put a stone in the pot to feed her children, telling the kids to collect firewood and huff-puff for boiling. The kids did. The kids asked for food, and Mama said, 'Wait, wait and huff-puff more,' and the kids did. Later the kids poked the stone with a stick and found it very hard. The kids told Mama, 'You've said wait, wait and we are hungry.' So saying, they ran away, found food and never returned...
...missionaries had better be careful with Africans. They ask you for education and you have given them stones. Unless you feed your children they will run away [to Catholic missions...
Still the rumpled figures in Alben Barkley's office wrangled over what should be done. A House bloc stood stubbornly in favor of restoring controls on meat, dairy products, grains and feed. A Senate group, paced by Ohio's determined Bob Taft, insisted on easing controls over the price of manufactured products...
...Money. In Columbus, Ohio, a race horse named Depression was auctioned to meet his unpaid feed bill...
...saved out of what Harry Truman wanted. In five days and four long night sessions, southern Democrats and northern Republicans from agricultural states had helped each other get what they thought their constituents wanted. Out the window went controls on livestock, meat, poultry, eggs, all dairy products, grain and feed, tobacco, cottonseed and soybeans and their products. The Senate wrote in a reservation on petroleum; it was taken out from under price controls, but was left subject to control if the Decontrol Board certifies that supply is insufficient to meet domestic demand...