Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbors are each other's best customers, but it is a chronic Canadian complaint that Canada gets the short end of the bargain. By the trainload and shipload, Canadian newsprint, nickel, aluminum feed the U.S. economy. The Consolidated Denison mine in Blind River, Ont. contains twice as much uranium as all the known U.S. reserves, and its entire output through 1961 is earmarked for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In turn, the U.S. ships industrial machinery, automobiles and consumer goods to the north, and Canada's trade deficit with the U.S. last year...
...feed the public hunger for new pop names, U.S. record makers flail the musical undergrowth like beaters at a princely pheasant shoot, while fledgling pop singers break cover from behind lunch stands and dime-store counters, flutter out of laundry trucks and prizefighting rings. With luck, adroit promotion and an occasional touch of talent, some of the captured quarry end up making the kind of noises that set cash registers ajingle...
...million bu. of surplus wheat in special tents three years ago because conventional grain-elevator space was unavailable. Floods came, starlings pecked holes in the thin canvas, rats and insects invaded the tents. When time came to release the wheat, much of it was fit only for animal feed. The Agriculture Department is withholding $4,700,000 in storage fees and wants another $8,000,000 in damages. Sadly, Burrus admits it owes the U.S. $10.7 million, questions only $2,000,000 of the Government's demand...
...population of the world, Stamp calculated that there was enough land to let every person have a share of 13.6 acres. But of these, there are only four arable per person. At the present time, only about one is actually used. "This means," Stamp thought, "that we could feed four times the present population of the earth...
...have a fair amount of influence and might cause trouble in the future. Particularly if more and from the free world does not reach Pakistan. Religion, the major reason for the Communists' lack of success, does not fill empty stomachs, he said, and Communism is waiting to feed. But, Shah added, "Pakistan is openly on the side of the free world...