Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government had promised: "Within two years, British housewives will be getting 20 million eggs and 1,000,000 pounds of dressed poultry yearly from Gambia." The idea was that cheap native (nonunion) labor could grow feed for the chicks and harvest the eggs, but trouble hatched early. An American appointed to head the project got $14,000 to buy hatching eggs from Rhode Island Reds. Beaverbrook's Daily Express blew its patriotic top, offered to fly 1,000 day-old chicks or good British hatching eggs to Gambia. While waiting for the local feed supply to be produced...
Last week Colonial Secretary James Griffiths told the House of Commons that the plan had failed and would be abandoned. Reason: the government planners had regrettably failed to find out whether Gambian land would grow chicken feed. The fact: it would...
...grow faster is almost certain to reduce their price." With this consumer-conscious observation, President Dwight Joyce of Cleveland's Glidden Co. last week began promoting a new product to make animals grow faster-and, possibly, to reduce the price of food. The product: "ABC and X" animal feed, which contains waste fish products and secret antibiotic drugs that help animals to get more nourishment from their food. The new feed, said Joyce, will make turkeys grow bigger, speed up the growth of chickens 5% to 20%, pigs 20% (until they reach...
Glidden is not primarily in the feed business; it is one of the biggest U.S. paint companies. But last week President Joyce planned to be in the feed business in a big way, helped by a nationwide ad campaign plugging his new feed with the slogan: "Grow faster with Glidden...
When Joyce found that the Germans were using soybean oil in paint, he built a soybean processing plant, used the oil himself and sold the meal to animal-feed manufacturers. To develop new soybean products, Joyce hired Dr. Percy Julian, a Negro chemist from DePauw University. The choice was good; Julian was the first to mass-produce sex hormones from soybeans successfully, gained further fame in World War II by developing a fire-fighting foam to smother gasoline and oil fires...