Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feed us more steaks and battery acid, not hot dogs and cocoa...
...present widespread . . . outbreak of crime and disorder on the part of American youth (TIME, Dec. 14) is that the fundamental place of discipline in education seems to have been quite forgotten. . . . The rabbit is at liberty to run about the garden where his life is passed, and feed upon such plants, weeds and flowers as may attract him. . . . To call any such process education is in the highest degree absurd...
...TIME, JAN. 25) "PARISIUS HAD A GOOD AND TESTED IDEA: TO DRAW A MILLION SMALL FARMERS INTO THE NATION'S CRITICAL FOOD PRODUCTION BATTLE BY PROVIDING THEM SUPERVISION AND CREDIT FOR NEEDED EQUIPMENT, FEED AND FERTILIZER." BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS REPORTS THAT 2,OOO,OOO LOW-INCOME FARMERS PRODUCE ONLY 3% OF FARM PRODUCTS GOING TO MARKET. EVERY FARMER KNOWS THAT NEEDED FOOD INCREASE CAN COME ONLY FROM 4,OOO,OOO FARMS PRODUCING 97% OF COMMODITIES GOING TO MARKET AND MAINLY FROM 3,OOO,OOO TOP FARMS THAT PRODUCE 86%. ALL CREDIT TO PRACTICAL FARMER CLAUDE WICKARD FOR REJECTING...
Results. Scherwin's survey, made on orders from Major General Edmund B. Gregory, Quartermaster General, recommended that cooks cease preparing meals to feed the number of men at the morning roll call. He found absenteeism at dinner and supper often ran as high as 20%. Reasons: mild illness, eating at post exchanges, anxiety to get away early on leave. By allowing for absentees, the Army hopes to cut $119,000,000 from its annual food bill, which in 1943 will be about $1,250,000,000. Other savings may be made by eliminating wastage that Scherwin uncovered...
Never able to feed its 388,800,000 people in peacetime, India during World War II no longer can count on the twelve million tons of rice formerly imported (1937-38) from Burma, Thailand and Indo-China. Almost two million Indian soldiers are eating more than ever before; half a million Burmese and Malayan refugees have to be fed, as do American and Chinese troops...