Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produce cotton, the one perfect wartime crop that produces food, fiber and shot. Compound lard, high explosives, stock feed, clothing, plastics, isinglass for planes and thousands of other products are produced from cotton. Very few articles can be made from soybeans that cannot also be made from cotton seed. We can grow more pounds of cotton seed per acre than we can soybeans, and we can harvest the cotton seed...
...Tylertown (pop. 1,100), the county seat and only post office. They traveled afoot, in model-T Fords, in mule-drawn wagons, in school busses. They carried 5,000 fried chickens, 350 turkeys, enough pies, cakes, salads and bread to load pine tables 1,000 feet long and feed 5,000 people. The town was gay in bunting, flags and welcome signs...
...Morse Code classes in less than half the time expected by the Army and Navy, maintains facilities for physiological research at the east end. Graduate and undergraduate thesis-writers here are each charged with the welfare and guidance of from twenty to a hundred or more cute rodents. They feed them, pet them, train them, and give them cerebral lesions. Sometimes a rat bites a student, but the average rat is a pretty good egg. They sit up in humanoid poses, coyly cock their wee heads, and squeak in unison in the darkened cages. Millions of 'em. One gets...
...Parity is an abstraction that the Department of Agriculture computes every month on the basis of information it gets from 20,000 reporters: 1) the current prices of every major farm crop; 2) the costs of 174 things the farmer buys -food, clothing, furnishings, seed, feed, machinery, fertilizer. The figures are averaged by States, then nationally, then compared with figures that show what farmers got for their produce and paid out for necessities between Aug. 1, 1909 and July 31, 1914, a period of lush agricultural prosperity. The object of parity: to give farmers the same purchasing power now that...
...American Angel" for her war relief in France, finally had to abandon her work for lack of funds. A Cleveland steelmaker's widow who had been one of London's most spectacular hostesses for more than two decades, she plunged into the job of helping feed, clothe, doctor, and amuse soldiers and war prisoners in France three years ago, sent aid to thousands of men in French prisons and camps, took to selling her jewels and clothing when her money began to run out. Last week she had sold the last of her jewels, the last...