Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, Geoffrey pays $10 in government taxes and $16 to the building society. He allows himself $5 for lunches-which means, he says, "either I give myself a good feed and nothing to drink, or sandwiches and a pint of wallop [beer]." Mary spends $12 a week for food (50% more than prewar), $4 for local taxes, light and heat. Their 23? meat ration lasts for only two meals, so Mary supplements it with items like mushrooms and canned salmon. This is costly but the Jacksons consider it an investment in good health...
...head over the slick trick Cargill, Inc. had used to import Canadian rye cheaply and break the market. Cargill apparently had been able to do so by crawling through a loophole in the law that permitted the import of rye free of duty, if it were sold for feed. (Cargill got the Bureau of Customs to give it one year's time in which to show that this grain was used for feed.) This, said the court, gave Cargill an "unfair" advantage over other traders. But this, too, was self-preservation, and thus perfectly legal in the rye market...
...Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers," a small band of mallards, are settled behind some willows to feed, and out somewhere beyond Flint Hill the windows of a rural school are adorned with cutout paper pumpkins. RICHARD P. BISSELL Dubuque, Iowa
...dismay and disbelief of civic-proud Los Angelenos, the Los Angeles Times reported that hordes of rats swarmed nightly over palm-fringed Pershing Square in the midst of downtown Los Angeles. The rats, said the Times, climbed down out of the trees to feed on popcorn and nuts forgotten by the pigeons in the daytime, drank from the fountain, scampered over discarded newspapers...
This sop to the matinee trade undercuts some of the strongest human values in the film. The G.I. has a legitimate gripe: his allotment will not feed a gnat, let alone a healthy, expectant wife. The professor has been left on a shelf by loving friends and colleagues, to be dusted off at their convenience. Whenever these mistreated males threaten to let out a hearty, realistic beef about their grievances, Writer-Director George Seaton quickly smothers their growls under the suds...