Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast plain , of Honan, gaunt Chinese farmers watched the enemy tanks crush their fat grain, watched the enemy horsemen feed their mounts on ripe wheat...
...that, despite recent point reductions on canned vegetables, the efforts of spare-time gardeners are still essential. (Last year 42% of the nation's vegetables were grown in Victory gardens.) Concerning meat, jut-jawed Chet Bowles flirted with a prediction: if this year's crops of livestock feed are only normal, meat rationing on the old basis, perhaps slightly less severe, will return by next winter. Should the feed crops fail, the meat shortages next winter may be "more acute," rationing stricter than before...
...rains had hurt most farmers. During most of the month, field work was at a standstill. To increase the scarce livestock feed supply, farmers had planned a record crop of oats. But less than half the oats in Illinois and Iowa, less than a third in Nebraska, had been planted...
...south, captured 1,800 sq.mi. of wheat-blanketed Honan flatland, took the town of Chengchow (prewar pop. 700,000), seized the historic Hulap pass to the west. Now the Chinese looked unhappily to the summer, when a Japanese-held rebuilt railway from Chengchow southward may well be used to feed a new offensive in central China...
Less Food-Later. Last week 100 carloads of Canadian feed wheat were shipped into Kansas, No. 1 wheat-producing state, to replenish dwindling supplies of livestock feed. U.S. grain stocks are running dangerously...