Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proportion of the through freight rate which the trunk lines have assigned to the New England railroads is lower than that accorded the railroads which feed the other Atlantic ports. And this accounts for the recent trouble with one of the finest terminals of the railroad system--the port of Boston, which is broad, "deep chested", protected, and well furnished with excellent docking facilities; and what is still more in its favor from the point of view of the steamship companies, it is some three hundred miles, one day, nearer Europe than is New York, the nearest of the other...
...Cincinnati rises in his seat at the National Association of Postmasters to protest against the promiscuous shipment of alligators. Mr. Behymer points out that livestock, under the law, is entitled to the privileges of being mailed. He faces calmly the prospect of "being obliged to attend, water and feed various fowls and irritated livestock",--if they can be termed "harmless" and wear badges to that effect. Mr. Behymer draws the line at alligators...
...battles, and in all their trials until now they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit and an undivided loyalty to our nation that has been a thing of beauty to behold. Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them...
...When I take food production figures for all New York, and find that all that is produced in that section in one year will not feed the population of that same section for longer period than one week, I conclude that the East is interested in the food production of the West". That is the answer Congressman L. J. Dickinson, recognized head of the "Farm Bio", gave to a CRIMSON interviewer recently when asked in what way the agricultural legislation affected the eastern states...
...partisan politics must have its fling. The important foreign posts are the plums that politicians grow to feed campaign fund contributors; until some political Burbank produces a new variety they will continue to be eaten as soon as they are ripe. America's international relations cannot reach the plane attained by other nations, as long as our foreign representatives are subject to change without notice. And the appeal for a higher quality in our public servants will not be answered as long as they have so doubtful an incentive to service as now exists...