Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biologist Bonner took a hard, imaginative look at the world's future food supply. He points out that if all the carbon produced on earth by land plants (16 billion tons a year) were in edible form, it would feed 46 times the present human population; the carbon from cultivated lands alone is ten times as much as is needed. A large part of it is inedible stems, leaves, etc., and another large part is wasted by domestic animals or consumed by insects and other pests, but Dr. Bonner believes that with effort more of it could be made...
...mind, the committeemen shed coats and went to work, blocking out a Senate version that contained the soil-bank program President Eisenhower had asked for (but no advance payments). Plagued by conditioned political reflexes, some members could not resist adding filigree. The outstanding ornament: a proviso that growers of feed grain (oats, barley, etc.) who do not comply with 1957 acreage allotments receive special supports based on those the President has recommended for commercial corngrowers who exceed allotments...
Republicans George D. Aiken and John J. Williams rejected the finished bill outright, and three other members (two Democrats, one Republican) joined them in a minority report rejecting the feed-grain support clause. It was, they agreed, "the kind of contradiction which caused the President to veto the original farm bill," and would boost costs for dairy, livestock and poultry farmers. The full Senate, considering the bill this week, would have to decide how much attention to pay to the mail and how much to the filigree...
Round the Clock. A part-time inventor, Shield used the East Paterson store to try out his patented Food-O-Mat, a block of tiered ramps that feed cans and jars to customers by gravity and save up to 40% of floor space. To solve the traffic problem inside his stores, Shield broke the conventional supermarket pattern of long, parallel shelves and narrow aisles. For his new layout he had architects design short, boxy shelves, spot them in irregular arcs to create broad aisles and thereby eliminate bottlenecks for grocery carts...
There is even a growing feeling that the great stock shows with their blue ribbons and hoopla show-ring standards are out of line with the new technology of converting feed into meat. Said a cowman recently: "You buy a prize bull and the first thing you have to do is thin him down. Not only is he not fit for the range, but he has no inclination to cover a cow until he's taken off 300 pounds...