Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the United Textile Workers announced that they would go on strike with less than $1,000,000 in their treasury to provide strike benefits for 300,000 strikers, their leaders intimated that, of course, the Relief Administration would feed them. Manufacturers promptly emitted a deep and throaty growl at Government-financed strikes. Last week before going to consult with the President at Hyde Park, Mr. Hopkins did his best to still this protest. Said...
...gauze drop behind which tottered in semidarkness a troupe of half-naked show girls. The decor of Life Begins at 8:40, turned out by the youngest and best man in the business, is no more like that of typical Shubert offerings than chicken salad is like chicken feed...
...technique is as follows: Salmon feed in the ocean. They come into fresh water to spawn. They do not feed in fresh water. The Indians found that they did not like red and so we tie a red feather on a quarter inch hook which is attached to light tackle. The fish strikes at the red feather, catches the barb in its lip and with a reasonable amount of skill in preventing any slack line, the fish is finally landed. Unlike tuna fishing where bait is used and the fish is permitted to swallow the bait, in salmon fishing...
...holders of more valuable property. His inheritance tax would take 50% of any personal bequest over $50,000, 50% of any estate over $250,000. But his greatest project was for the unemployed. He would have the State rent or buy land and inactive factories, establish colonies of unemployed, feed, clothe and house them with the products of one another's labor until they became so happy that all other Californias envied them...
...Administration attack on rising prices was being prepared. The President led off by authorizing Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to admit imports of livestock feed & forage duty free. Two other procedures were held in reserve: 1) reduction of tariffs on food; 2) use of AAA's power over all food processors, distributors and speculators to keep them from profiteering...