Word: feed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even the basically sound economy has taken some hard body blows. August machine tool orders were down 17.3% to an estimated $52.4 million as manufacturers held off ordering machines until they were sure of having the steel to feed them. Sales of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers dropped $2.2 billion in August to a rate of $59.5 billion. Freight carloadings were only 74% of normal for this time of year. Assessing the situation, the National Association of Purchasing Agents reported that "the steel strike has lasted too long to enable us to avoid serious dislocations in production. Prospects for good business...
...collectives and return to their private plots. But, Marxist that he is, Gomulka surrounded the peasants with a maze of economic controls. Last year, when the government pegged the price of potatoes too high, the peasants sold their potatoes to the state instead of using them as pig feed, then slaughtered their pigs prematurely, thus sharply reducing the pork supply for 1959. State price fixing produced much the same results with cattle, and on top of all this, a severe drought last summer cut deeply into meager fodder stocks...
...Chinese Communists keep Peking's tiny complement of foreign correspondents (about 25) penned up like zoo animals, spoon-feed them a diet of propaganda seldom adulterated by truth. But now and then the tamest specimens, i.e., those with the staunchest Communist records, are led forth for a blinkered stroll around the compound. Last week 19 such journalists returned to Peking after a three-week tour of ravaged Tibet...
There was another villain in the Deadwood legend: fire. Any flicker of flame in the bottom of the valley would feed upward to the houses above. And every Deadwood youngster knew that the gulch was a natural chimney when forest fires swept through the adjacent piny hills. A fire starting in a bakery charred Deadwood in 1879. The town was rebuilt with a water barrel on every roof, survived three big fires in 1951-52. Last week, for 24 hours, Deadwood (pop. 4,000) broiled under the windswept fingers of a forest fire that threatened to cook it once...
This anguished quadrangle frames a landscape full of cactus and wild horses. Cowboy Blanding is a wild-horse wrangler on the side. He and some mercenary Indians trap mustangs and sell them for chicken feed. Business looks good when Blanding traps thousands of mustangs in a natural amphitheater; but he reckons without Stanley and Lark, who might have been the founding father and mother of the Walla Walla S.P.C.A...