Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate was considering a bill appropriating $50,000,000 for crop, feed and seed loans to farmers. Senator after Sena tor was rising to put in good word, to make a friendly gesture towards his constituents, when Carter Glass of Virginia rose with a sly light in his sharp...
...prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well. And three times daily the doctors alkalize the patient with potus imperialis, a drink of ½ oz. cream of tartar dissolved in 3 pints of water, sweetened and flavored with lemon peel. They never rouse a sleeping drunk "for any reason, medicinal or otherwise...
...seemed enough like spring to stimulate prodigious, pre-seasonal laying. Not long after Christmas farmers found themselves with more pails of fresh eggs than they could sell. Early last month the New York egg market was glutted, wholesale prices were abnormally low, farmers were beginning to reduce chicken feed and to slaughter too-productive pullets. Meanwhile the great chain grocery stores which sell New Yorkers about one billion eggs a year were making about 11? a dozen on the spread between wholesale and retail prices. Upon this scene moved Surplus Commodities Corp. To strengthen the wholesale market it recommended...
...immediate effect of this was to attract an even larger number of egg-sellers to the New York market than before, by week's end wholesale prices had steadied, moved up a little. Surplus Commodities Corp. hoped that this would dissuade poultry farmers from cutting down on feed and hatchings, thereby causing an egg shortage next autumn...
Tamer In Buffalo, N. Y., on his day off Lion Tamer John Taylor, 66, was picked up by Patrolman Howard Leininger who reported that he was "drunk and nasty and ferocious and snarled." Tamer Taylor confessed that when he got drunk he couldn't feed the lions because he wasn't "quick enough." Said the judge: "You'd better . . . take to feeding rabbits." Blast In Fairview, 111., a keg of wet blasting powder was lugged into the house of Albert Taylor, 61, to dry beside a stove. As Taylor sat down to dinner with his wife...