Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parse" 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. Twice Parisius submitted such plans to Claude Wickard. Twice the Food Boss agreed, only to change his mind in the knowledge that the big farmers' lobbyists insist production increases can come only through higher prices...
...enemy: locusts-who would like nothing better than to eat the extensive crops planted throughout the Middle East and Africa to feed Allied troops...
...Said Britain's Russian-born entomologist, Boris Petrovich Uvarov, locust-control authority and a chief organizer of the new campaign: "The world suffers 15,000,000 Ib. worth of crop losses yearly through locusts-in other words, man yearly grows 15,000,000 Ib. of crops to feed locusts. . . . Since they know no boundaries and require no passports, their control is possible only by international arrangement...
...peanuts to Charlotte Carr. "Miss Carr is a big-time operator with a flair for the spectacular," said a trustee last week. In her former job, as director of New York City's Emergency Relief Board (1935-37), she had $9,000,000 a month to spend to feed more people than live in all Milwaukee. Before that, she was Secretary of Labor & Industry in teeming, brawling Pennsylvania...
...food has not only been dehydrated (TIME, Feb. 16) for the removal of water, but has also been "debulked" (compressed) for the removal of air. The advantages in transportation are enormous-inspiring to Lend-Leasers, Army rationers and those who foresee that, after the war, the U.S. will feed great areas of the world. Compression adds another 30-90% to the great savings in bulk already attained by dehydration (many foods naturally average nine-tenths water). Equally important, the Cellophane-wrapped, dry-pressed foods are less likely to spoil, more amenable to the art of cookery than simply dehydrated foods...