Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mechanical cotton pickers are already successful, mechanical cultivators are being developed, mechanization of cotton culture seems inevitable. So does diversification. Special varieties of cotton may be grown for seed and oil, others for linters to feed the rayon industry, which may thus become an ally rather than a competitor of cotton...
...Reich Food Administration spokesman explained his problem: ". . . loss of the agricultural district in the east is a difficulty. . . . Our supply organization is now sharply strained . . . strictest rationing and best organization are necessary for us to get through these twelve months [of 1944]. The millions of foreign workers we must feed make, so to speak, a thirteenth month...
...news was bad for Canada, worse for the U.S. Like a modern Joseph, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics warned: Canada's once-plentiful hoard of feed grain (oats and barley) had been "severely trimmed" by heavy domestic demand, exports to the U.S. Next year there will probably be little enough for Canadian livestock, let alone the U.S., which needs all the Canadian feed...
...There is a great scheme, I am told, to take over a loch in Scotland and feed the fish artificially. If that ever comes to pass there will be no hope for the nation's bellyache...
...Codfish has made a new man of me, for this reason: that major menace of the modern world, the Scientist, has not yet been able to tackle the fish of the sea and feed them up according to his formulae instead of letting them live according to the rules of Nature...