Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippines, Indo-China and Indonesia, where 300 million persons live on the richest undeveloped land in the world," said Dewey. First trouble probably will come in Indo-China. If Indo-China is lost, India will be next and Japan will be deprived of any non-Communist market to feed a healthy economy...
...disability bill [TIME, Aug. 27]: "A barefaced grab of public money" is right! Why not put all veterans on pension as soon as they're discharged and spoon-feed them for the rest of their lives...
...experiment station, hens fed with mildly radioactive mash are laying radioactive eggs. This tracer technique, the university said last week, has helped its poultry scientists to follow the intimate workings of the hen's egg-making machinery. By skilled use of Geiger counters, they can follow the "hot" feed as it circulates inside the hen. They can measure it accurately as it forms into...
...laid egg, say the scientists, contains material derived from feed that the hen ate as long as 40 days before. It takes eight to ten days to form a complete egg. Most of this time (about seven days) is spent in the making of the yolk. The shell is a quickly built container. Nearly 75% of the mineral in it comes from feed that the hen ate the previous...
Bureaumen believe that eventually 50 million more acres can be irrigated west of the Rockies, and that this would feed an additional 75 million people. Even after that, there is plenty more. East of the Rockies lie large areas of semi-arid land that could increase their production mightily. It would be quite a job to pump the Mississippi into Texas and Oklahoma, but the more enthusiastic bureaumen believe it could be done. ¼We and our contractors,¼ they say, ¼enjoy pushing rivers around...