Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brightly hop-skipping from one thought to another, as her practice is in press conferences, Eleanor Roosevelt said: "It doesn't help a country to have families with twelve children and no food; it helps to have whatever number of children they can feed and educate decently...
...packers disagreed with Eastwood's gloomy forecast. The rush of cattle to market was temporary. Apparently it was just the disgruntled cattle raisers' and feed-lot operators' way of expressing their dissatisfaction with the new ceiling of $18 a 100 lbs. on cattle. The feeders were saving expensive feed by selling their stock, and in their hurry to get out from under, they were shipping animals that averaged 40 to 65 lbs. less than 1944's marketing weights. Should the feed-lot operators trim their herds too sharply, the gristle-tough outlook would be for something...
Hope for the Best (by William Mc-Cleery; produced by Jean Dalrymple & Marc Connelly) casts Franchot Tone -absent from Broadway since 1940 - as a famous columnist. He has 11,000,000 readers lapping up his harmless froth, but what he yearns after is to feed them politics and liberalize their thinking. Scared out of trying by his highbrow, reactionary fiancée, he finally borrows enough gumption from a sympathetic young girl (Jane Wyatt)- incidentally swapping fiancées while crossing his Rubicon...
...rail jam was the worst. Huge drifts stalled trains in the open country. Passengers had to wade through drifts to nearby farmhouses to spend the night. State troopers went along the highway dynamiting 14-ft. drifts, clearing the roads so that emergency auto caravans could get through with feed for livestock and food for isolated villages and farms. Improvised or ancient sledges turned up in the streets...
Food for Man & Beast. Nearly a million Eastern dairymen and poultrymen anxiously peered into their feed bins. With no cars to load, the grain mills at Buffalo were more than 80,000 tons behind in their shipments. Six of the largest grain and flour mills closed down...