Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infant piglet's life is confused and dangerous, and mom is usually to blame. Some sows eat their young, and many roll on them or trample them to death. Another bad habit of sows is producing more pigs than they can feed properly. The average sow has only eight or ten teats (some of which may not be functioning), and she often farrows as many as 16 pigs. The runts and laggards that don't connect with a functional teat during their early mealtimes are gone pigs. Hunger makes them too weak to compete in later battles...
...that point, many Americans were caught up in the great muscle-flexing passion of Manifest Destiny. They heard Indiana's Senator Albert J. Beveridge cry: '''God did not make the American people the mightiest' human force of all time simply to feed and die ... He has made us the lords of civilization . . . The Philippines are ours forever." They heard President McKinley trying to set his own mind straight: "When ... I realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps, I confess I did not know what to do with them ... I went down...
...Closing the Ring (June 1943 to D-day 1944) included the assaults on Sicily and Italy, the enlarging war in the Pacific and the massive preparations for the Normandy invasion. Yet Churchill found time to swoop down on laggard officials everywhere, keep a sharp eye on everything from poultry-feed supplies to stocks of playing cards, and make a run through Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...
...Bulging Feed Lots. Ever since beef controls first went on, meatmen have demanded they be lifted. Most admit that if they are, prices will go up. But after a temporary flurry, they think heavier supplies will bring prices down...
Actually, the showdown is at hand. In the corn belt's feed lots is a record number of cattle that must come to market sooner or later. If they move soon, prices will drop, beef will be plentiful, and Mike Di Salle will win his battle for continued controls. But if this does not happen, and the beef-control program is working as badly and as unfairly by midwinter as it is now, then even impartial observers think that meat controls must be abandoned...