Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corn-hog price ratio that had kept so many hogs on the farm, and so much corn going into them in the last year or so, was done for. Cash corn soared from $1.46½ to $2.25 a bu. at Chicago, far too high to make it profitable to feed it to hogs. Instead, it came off the farms (1,000,000 bushels...
...last week, prices had inched up throughout the country, steak to two dollars a pound, butter to seventy-five cents. On the local scene, food prices in Harvard Square beer parlors and short order places quietly went up a nickel here, a dime there. Chicken feed, a mere beginning...
...sure that the great majority of the American people will agree with me that we shouldn't deprive ourselves of any luxuries just to feed millions of people who mean nothing to us and who are probably better off dead anyway...
...Hearty Feed." But by last week Stassenites suddenly realized that they might be heading for a sharp comeuppance. Despite published polls, reports from district leaders and the gossip of professional politicos showed that shrewd old Henrik Shipstead had been retrieving ground fast, might even be edging ahead...
...Washington, silver-shocked Senator Shipstead has learned to avoid controversial domestic subjects, has never signed his name to any important piece of legislation. But he has remembered to look out for his constituents. He blatantly promised "to lead the farmers up to the Treasury-trough for a hearty feed." Originally a Republican, he paid no attention to party lines. Minnesota had first sent him to the Senate as a Farmer-Laborite, returned him twice on that ticket, finally as a Republican again...