Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Being also a housewife who has "given" a son to this war, I can well understand the shame . . . which required the withholding of the name of the housewife [who would not "tighten the belts of my other children to feed Europe"; TIME, April...
...Drawn together . . . from the four points of the compass without much deliberation or any reference to their professional usefulness," there were among them "twelve seamstresses and mantua-makers but not a saddler, two watchmakers but , . . only 36 farmers and field laborers to feed the large population, still swelling like a tide." Impossible Shangri-La. Owen's earthly paradise was soon torn by dissension and engulfed by practical economics. In less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger...
...encourage feed-lot operators to resume full operations and feed their cattle to heavier weights, the Office of Price Administration will cancel its plan to lower ceiling prices for choice cattle...
...consternation and anger, the agencies tried something else. To get corn into other markets, OPA boosted the ceiling price of corn. But instead of raising the floor under hogs, WFA dropped its support price to $12.50. The enraged farmers knew what to do about that. To save expensive feed, they dumped their hogs on the market...
...more than half friendly with the Japs and permitted him to stay only because he liked having an American dependent on him for life itself. "Here he is," he would say to his friends, pointing to Tweed as if he were a caged animal. "I keep him here. I feed...