Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About time we get on the ball, isn't it? God, if other colleges can sell $1000 a week, we should be able to make that look like chicken feed." Chicken feed? For 4000 Harvard guys, I guess it is, thought Vag. "Well, I'll think about it, anyway." He reached for a card on the table. "You know, there's no reason why we can't do it if those other guys can. Why haven't we started this before? "But we have been--" answered the man behind the table, who was counting up his money...
...order to make his best contribution," said he, "every farmer should divert as much wheat land as practicable to crops more urgently needed . . . soybeans, flax and various feed crops." He told them that storing the colossal wheat surplus (tying up, among other things, thousands of bins made of precious steel) is already a terrible headache. He begged them to keep all the wheat they could on the farm and to market as much more as possible in the form of livestock and poultry...
...civilians in all but heavy industry will get little or no milk, no eggs (unless they can feed their chickens exclusively on disappearing kitchen scraps), few tinned foods from the U.S., no vegetables except potatoes, cabbage and brussels sprouts. Eating in Britain will be even less fun, even more functional. The rations will be enough to keep people nourished, and no more...
Though approximately one-fourth of Russia's 240 million acres of farmland had been overrun by the Germans, there were about 40 million fewer mouths to feed (those left in occupied areas and those who had died). Final harvest figures were far from complete, but they seemed the best in years, assuring Russia of at least as much food as last year. Beamed the Moscow News: "The Soviet countryside succeeded not only in coping with the increased state plan for grain, vegetables and industrial crops, but also in topping it on a scale in excess of the most optimistic...
...bombers, snub-nosed Lancasters, could get up enough speed, carrying several tons of bombs, to raid Germany and return with conservative losses. On three successive days last week Lancasters and slower, longer-ranged Sterlings swept over the Ruhr to paste steel mills, factories, electric plants and other industries that feed Hitler's armies. Bombers flying singly made the first two raids; a mass of bombers in formation made the third...