Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany raised enough food to feed her population of 40,997,000. But the years between the Franco-Prussian and the World Wars saw a three-fold growth of the city population, while the rural population stood still. After 1900 the trend frightened the military clique into demanding increased tariff protection for the farmer, and just before the famous shot was fired at Sarajevo the Kaiser's advisers were only reasonably certain that the food situation could withstand...
...however, industrial Germany's dependence on imported animal fodders had become all too apparent in the wizened faces of the German children. Lack of feed for German cows cut the Berlin milk supply by two-thirds, and 9,000.000 German pigs had to be slaughtered in the war's first year because there was not even garbage for them to eat. As early as 1916 ration cards for fats and meat had been introduced, and the "turnip" winter was at hand. In coal and steel production War-time Germany held up, partly because of the capture of Belgian...
...when it was all over, Big & Little Steel were yoked to a new price structure at $50.51 instead of $56.27 a ton and they had enough orders for five months of operations at 50% of capacity. Their week of war had sold not just 1,000,000 tons to feed Detroit from October through Christmas, but something like 2,000,000 tons-enough to tide auto production over until the 1939 model year was nearly over. Result: the 1939 model cars were about $25 cheaper than the 1938, and $10 of that cut was put up by the steelmen...
While Senator O'Mahoney and his western colleagues are sputtering to the press for the benefit of friends back home, the State Department is quietly proceeding with its plan to "feed the navy on foreign beef." Argentina offers a product at 9 cents; American producers ask 23 cents; the navy begins to buy from Argentina. Obviously a subversive and un-American transaction. . . standard of living doomed . . . Japan; now Argentina. But more important than the patent stupidity involved in such typical protectionist reasoning is the fact that such Congressional utterances constitute destructive opposition to the far-reaching policy of Pan-Americanism...
...here as everywhere there is a dilemma and a compromise required. An unmitigated policy of giant-killing produces a topheavy teaching structure: luxuriant foliage at top, but no roots to feed and support. A continuous effort to garner big names means neglect of the large body of instructors who provide most of the teaching. The non-exceptional student suffers by having less and poorer guidance at his disposal...