Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final plunge, he pleaded, Spain was too poor and unprepared. Germany must first send more wheat to feed the hungry Spaniards and guns to reduce Gibraltar. When the Axis crashed, he cleared from his desk in El Prado the autographed portraits of Hitler and Mussolini. He orated: "Falangism is not fascism . . . [but] a special mode of life...
Deadline Ahead. Against the world's titanic misery, which would easily dwarf even the biggest achievement, UNRRA has achieved a great deal. It has helped feed, clothe and repatriate some 5,000,000 of 6,500,000 D.P.s in Allied Europe, has channeled some 2,000,000 tons of food, fuel, medicine, machinery, second-hand locomotives and other supplies, has begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last...
Politics of Relief. This week, the men whose job it is to feed the world's hungry millions gather in the fourth Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration at Atlantic City's lush Traymore Hotel. To soften the contrast between the locale and the subject of their discussions, UNRRA officials announced that the delegates would have to double up in $16.50-a-day rooms, would be served "austerity" meals. Two crucial issues would come up at the meeting...
...Russian charges that UNRRA funds were being used to feed anti-Soviet D.P.s who refuse to return to Russia (inevitably countered by U.S.-British charges that UNRRA aid in Russia's vassal states is being used to bolster Communist regimes...
...only trouble with this was that Clint Anderson also promised farmers that the ceiling prices for hogs would remain the same until Sept. 1 and the subsidy for "finishing" (fattening) cattle would stay in effect until June 30. Thus, it was still more profitable to feed corn to produce meat than to sell the grain. So whether these piddling price boosts would lure much more grain off the farms was doubtful. Some experts guessed that grain prices would have to be raised somewhere in the neighborhood of from 25? to 50? a bushel to bring the grain...