Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedes let it be known that by cutting their rations they could, in a pinch, feed the Finns...
...Elusive Factories. Even knocking out German fighter strength is no mean task, as now officially described: "The German aircraft industry has tremendous recuperative powers. It is set up in a system of complexes, each composed of a final assembly plant and of component parts factories which feed their products into that plant for assembly into completed planes. Each complex is not only self-sustaining, but personnel and equipment of its units are interchangeable. . . . As soon as a plant in one complex is bombed out, its workers may be transported to a similar plant in another complex...
...buying up Egypt's food, causing undernourishment which makes the fellahin highly susceptible to disease. Actually, the British buy no corn at all from Egypt, buy no wheat without permission from the Government. Real reason the fellahin are starving: they get only about 2O? a day to feed themselves and their families, from landlords who run the region on the feudal system. Now even the landlords are worried, for malaria has so weakened the workers that ten are now needed to do the work of one and the production of sugar may soon go down...
...Congressional office building, calling on members. He found them sympathetic, but unwilling to buck the U.S. State Department, the British Empire and UNRRA. He argued: India was chipping in $35 million to UNRRA, while millions of its own were starving. How could UNRRA move into India to feed the 750,000 Burmese refugees there, but not feed the hungry Indians alongside? Finally Republican Karl Mundt of South Dakota offered a last-minute amendment to the UNRRA bill: "Any area important to the military operations of the United Nations which is stricken by famine or disease may be included...
...remarkable feature of the 1943 farm income was the sum the farmers managed to carry over to net profits. Despite soaring feed costs and fabulously high wages demanded by the few workers available, the U.S. farmers' net profits-out of a gross of $19 billion-are estimated at $12.5 billion. This 65% profit ratio scared the economists. With the farmers jingling so much inflationary money in their pockets, some economists fear another runaway land boom...