Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government, long faced with the acute and dangerous feed-grain shortage, acted last week. The nation needed corn, until the 1944 U.S. crop ripens. And Argentina held the only big surplus stock of corn in the world...
Administration hopes that Midwest farmers will sell enough corn from their 1944 crop to enable livestock raisers to secure adequate stocks of feed for the winter months...
...quivering muscle. Only the "shellshocked" animals make any noise. A wounded animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along on a straw substitute. About 60% of the patients go back into action in two weeks. The rest go to a more luxurious convalescent hospital. One such hospital is an old Italian cavalry post with fine stables, 10,000 acres of pasture...
What They Did (besides write letters home) is harder to tell. They read a great deal, talked, went sightseeing, got religion, argued (e.g., about the proper time to feed Arkansas mules), and trained...
...turbines for ships are already under construction by Allis-Chalmers, Elliott, and De Laval. The ships will have no boilers, heavy condensers or feed-water problem, can thus probably carry about 10% more cargo than steamships...