Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About your article on Hugh Schonfield's book The Passover Plot [Dec. 10]: please ask the good Mr. Schonfield what miraculous drug Jesus took to feed the 4,000 from seven loaves and fishes...
...India's need is now. In talks with President Johnson and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Subramaniam explained that 1965's drought-decimated harvests had left India at least 13 million tons short of grain to feed its 480 million people. Though the U.S. made no definite promises, there seemed little doubt that President Johnson would step up U.S. grain shipments. As he left Washington, Subramaniam told reporters, "Your great President gave me confidence that the problem will be solved. I go back to my country inspired...
Idea of Firing. For a longer-range solution, Mohieddin has started a birth-control program that he hopes will eventually reduce the number of mouths to feed. He also vows to crack down on the country's notoriously inefficient government-run factories. "We must make it honorable to do a day's work," he says. "And we must get used to the idea of firing people who will not work." As the 70,000 Egyptian troops return from Yemen, Mohieddin intends to demobilize many of them and retrain them for jobs in industry...
...Cerro, the government had violated the spirit, if not the precise letter, of its own law. The company pointed out that its sheep produce three times as much meat as the neighboring Indian herds; furthermore, it ran the ranch as a nonprofit enterprise, selling the meat at cost to feed its 15,000 workers...
...blatant violation of the Geneva agreement, several thousand North Vietnamese soldiers are now permanently stationed in the Laotian "panhandle" to keep the route secure. At the same time, they plunder rice from surrounding paddies to feed the infiltrators. Said U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff Creighton W. Abrams last week: "The road net can now move sufficient supplies to meet the requirements of all North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in the northern two-thirds of South Viet...