Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry to invest $60 billion in slum renovation. Unless a major effort of that scope is undertaken, Rocky argued, the U.S. will remain "at one and the same time the affluent society and the afflicted society." When Nixon appeared next day, he warned that such spending would only feed inflation and thus starve the slum dweller. Nixon turned with greater vivacity to the Democrats. "McCarthy has the intellectuals, Hubert has Lyndon and Bobby has the World Bank," he quipped vis-a-vis Robert McNamara's fulsome endorsement of Kennedy. Nixon had just had a haircut, and he noted that...
Americans traditionally treat their four-legged household pets like members of the family. And they feed them accordingly. Today, even table scraps are not good enough-which means that the nation's 3,000 dog-and cat-food makers and marketers contemplate 1968 sales of over $900 million, up $300 million since 1965. At that price, the doggy dish runs all the way from chicken croquettes to chunks of pure beef...
...basic pitch is always to an owner's heart, not to his pocketbook. "People always feel they have neglected their pet," says Morris Levinson, president of Associated Products, which sells Rival. "To help solve the guilt feelings, they want to feed their pet better-like themselves." "Who knows what greatness lives in the heart of a dog? We do," runs the TV commercial for General Foods' Gaines Gravy Train. Purina notes in its advertising: "All you add is love...
...industry estimates the U.S. has 25 million dogs, 20 million cats and 30 million pet-owning families. Surveys reveal that a family owning a dog or cat has an income of $8,000 or more and is itself consuming increasing amounts of prepared food-which means fewer scraps to feed pet appetites...
...spacecraft is equipped with a concentrator that pulls exhaled carbon dioxide out of the air. The carbon dioxide is combined in a catalytic reactor with hydrogen and converted into water and methane. An electrolysis system then decomposes the water into oxygen-for breathing-and hydrogen that is used to feed the catalyti c reactor. Reluctant to waste even the squeal of this chemical pig, McDonnell Doug las engineers are working on spacecraft thrusters that can be powered with the methane byproduct of the process...