Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming of "Bonn's United Circus Shows." He got the Boy Scouts to sponsor it. The Meadors Hotel saved 20 rooms, a grocery ordered 100 Ibs. of frankfurters, the Coca-Cola Co. dozens of cases of pop. A truckload of hay was deposited on the circus grounds to feed the elephants. F. Bam Morrison sold $250 worth of advertising for the circus program; while he was working at it, the hotel donated his room, the Wide-A-Wake Cafe his board. For treating him, two doctors got free passes to the show. Then Morrison left town, and Bohn...
Last time, the U.S. had to build and equip an Army and Navy of 12 million men; this time, its military manpower requirements were set, for the time being at least, at two or three million. Last time, the U.S. had to feed itself and nearly half of the world's 2 billion people; this time, it was feeding only itself and maybe some Koreans. Besides, it already had large surpluses in the cupboard (see BUSINESS). Sugar hoarding was unnecessary and foolish. Barring the kind of panic buying that brings on the controls that nobody wants, there should...
There was no meat shortage, either. In the Iowa feed pens, farmers last week were fattening 37% more cattle than a year ago. In Nebraska and Illinois cattle feeding operations were also higher. By fall there would be such a tremendous flow of fattened beef and pork to the nation's markets that prices were expected to fall...
...commander, Major General William F. Dean, had to hold a line somewhere between the battle zone and the southern supply port of Pusan. It seemed vital to hold the Sochon-Taejon-Taegu-Pusan railroad (see map)-double-tracked from Pusan to Taejon, the U.S. field headquarters-not only to feed the U.S. build-up in men and weapons but for lateral mobility behind the defense line. In the western sector, focus of last week's bloodiest fighting, Taejon and the rail line had a fine natural defense in front of them: the Kum River...
...What do you know about this affair?" the harassed judge asked another witness, Martha's own sister Emma. "The whole parish is full of it," she answered. "How did it begin?" asked the court. "Well," said Emma, "one day Maria had to feed her pigs and the 'witch' came near the pigs' fodder, so Maria threw the fodder into the toilet. Then the witch gave the sparrows to the children." "I deny everything, everything, everything," said Martha Minnen...