Word: feed
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Like the Secret Service guards and the White House itself, the farm problem comes with the job of being President. Last February, President John Kennedy began trying his hand at solving the farm fiasco with a complex feed-grain program-and by last week, as Agriculture Department experts studied the first solid returns on the 1961 crop, it was obvious that Kennedy, like most of his predecessors, had only succeeded in making matters worse...
Kennedy's program set out to grapple with the fact that U.S. farmers constantly overproduce feed grains-particularly corn-thereby causing prices to fall and Government surplus stockpiles to bulge. To induce the farmer to grow less, the program bribed him with subsidies: for cutting his normal acreage of corn or grain sorghums by 20%, the Government paid him 50% of the value of the forgone crop. This payment was made either in cash or in the form of grain taken from the surplus stockpiles, which the farmer could then sell or feed to his stock...
Ginsburg stated that the Peace Corps aimed to provide a particular service requested by a nation. It also gives the American volunteers an understanding of another culture and through a "feed-back affect" spreads this understanding to other Americans...
Miss Atkinson also stressed that "it is difficult to feed a captive group out of its own environment." She said that "the Administration is doing the best it can to eliminate unpopular dishes," but maintained that varsity is important...
Students are often limited to just one sandwich at a time at lunch, "because the kitchen just cannot get enough food together at one time to feed the mobs that descend after the 12 and 1 o'clock class breaks," she noted...