Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three packers-Kansas City's Maurer-Neuer, East St. Louis' Hunter Packing and Omaha's Cudahy Packing -have already signed more than 100 contracts with farmers. Swift is reportedly planning to start a contract-farming program in Georgia. Feed companies are also promoting contract farming, since it increases the market for their products. One of the pioneer promoters of the plan in the pork industry is Kansas City's aggressive Staley Milling Co., which supplies feed to contractors of all three packers using the plan, has sent its men around to boost it at farmers...
...feed talent into his championship club, Kutis has a farm system of three teams (one for adults, one for teenagers, one for youngsters from seven to ten). Branching out, ex-Amateur Infielder Kutis also sponsors 41 bowling teams, six baseball teams, two girls' softball teams, and one girls' basketball team. In all it costs him $15,000 a year...
...money to spend on research, young fella," said Wilson to a Navyman) and the Air Force from $1.2 billion to $622 million. Said a top Army general last week: "Research is the goose which lays the golden egg. Wilson wanted the egg, but he didn't want to feed the goose." As a result the Soviet Union, by devoting its resources to feeding the goose, got the golden...
Last week, despite a setback from a bout of pneumonia, George Congrave was able to feed himself with a special knife-and-fork combination that enabled him both to cut and pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
...management comer is more apt to find himself sent back to school with a pack of pencils and instructions to sharpen his potential. The new corporate fad-or what one executive calls "a fever sweeping industry"-was started to combat the shortage of executives by trying to force-feed talent in the classroom instead of waiting for it to grow naturally in the office. In 1957 alone, industry sent an estimated 300,000 executives back to school in hopes that they would learn to be better bosses. The phenomenal increase in corporate collegians has sparked a high-level, academic argument...