Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ's Mother. A statue of him stands in the window of the Catholic Worker headquarters on Manhattan's dirty lower east side. Miss Day, Mr. Maurin and a dozen others live in this "House of Hospitality," along with some 40 indigent "guests." Every morning they feed coffee, rye bread and apple butter to 1,000 men who begin lining up at 4:30. There are about 13 such workers' groups in the U. S. - most of them in the Midwest, among which the Catholic Worker finds most of its readers...
...nearly time, and the sleck-and-sturdy parade begins. With calculated smoothness, Packard follows Pierce, and Pierce follows Lincoln, with here and there in the procession a disdained Buick. At the proper spot each pauses, ejects a human cartridge or so, and moves off while the full feed belt behind fidgets for its turn. There is no hidden sheen here. No sheen in the clothing, at any rate. They are impeccable--the soft white spat, glove, nosegay--the starchy white shirt, collar, handkerchief--the black topper and morning dress coat--the sparkling shoes, still black on the soles...
...learn to fly have a wide choice of courses to pick from, all dependent on the applicant's age, fitness, depth of purse. If he wants his training for nothing, the Air Corps will take any healthy, well-schooled male between the ages of 20 and 26, feed, clothe, shelter and train him for a year, pay him $75 a month, almost guarantee a defense force or airline flyer's job at the end of the course. Last week two other ways were introduced. Tennessee began sending out application blanks for five State schools, accommodating 500 ground pupils...
...Hammond, Ind., Max M. Nowak, after 35 years building up the retail feed business founded by his father, last year sold $1,500,000 worth of livestock feed. To do so, Max Nowak had to spend $7,008 in 1937 for clerical help, auditors and attorneys to make out 1,100 tax reports, to pay $20,000 in taxes to 28 States and the Federal Government. Said he last week as he sold out to Vitality Mills, Inc.: "It is not merely the amount of tax I have to pay. It's also the annoyance of having to report...
...This Goodman is an interesting musician, isn't he?' said the professor, who was keeping time by stamping his feet on the floor. . . . 'Feed it out!' someone screamed as Gene Krupa, the drummer, began to knock the hell out of a set of cymbals. . . . 'Very interesting!' said the professor. 'The whole thing is explained in Allport's Social Psychology, chapters ten, eleven and twelve...