Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month Harry Truman set an ultimate goal of 3,000,000 men in uniform. Just to feed, clothe, house and pay that number will cost $3 billion more than has been appropriated for such costs. By next June, said Truman, military spending will be running at the rate of $30 billion a year (v. the $25 billion appropriated so far this year); after that, he added, "we shall have to spend much more than $30 billion...
...first news of Radcliffe's board hike came when the Council of Radcliffe mailed an announcement stating that it was raising rates to meet "advancing costs." Specifically, Dean Sherman explained that "the rapid rise in feed costs forced the board increase...
...Lazybeds. "What need they to work," wrote a traveler to Ireland in 1670, "who can content themselves with potatoes, whereof the labour of one man can feed forty...
...cigar-shaped aerial monster, is LeMay's blue-ribbon flying warship. It costs $4,700,000 before it ever gets off the ground (a small submarine costs $6,000,000). The tanks in its 230-ft. wing can swallow 2½ tank-car loads of gasoline, enough to feed its six pusher engines for nearly two days. It can cruise over the enemy out of sight of earth-and, the Air Force insists, fairly well above the range of effective interception. Four new jet engines, hanging beneath the wingtips, were designed to give it a spurt over the target...
...first news of Radcliffe's board hike came when the Council of Radcliffe mailed an announcement stating that it was raising rates to meet "advancing costs." Specifically, Dean Sherman explained that "the rapid rise in feed costs forced the board increase...