Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federation who walked off their jobs, demanding a 6% wage increase to meet a recent hike in dairy prices made by Finland's farmers' marketing organization. As the strike entered its third week, all industry was at a standstill, and strikers were hard pressed for money to feed their families. But there was a remarkable absence of any real violence among the imperturbable Finns. At week's end, the government got workers and employers together for a settlement...
...last week they had recorded 60 suspected cases (though some could prove to be viral pneumonia). The farms turned up only seven cases of apparent ornithosis. The situation was worse at a rendering plant, where turkeys that had died of disease were shipped to be boiled down for tallow, feed and fertilizer. At this plant, out of 32 employees, 24 became ill, a dozen hospitalized. At other plants there were 29 cases. Two died, but State Epidemiologist Samuel B. Osgood would only say that ornithosis was "a factor" in their deaths...
...Sauvie Island outbreak was stopped by putting almost a pound of antibiotics in every ton of turkey feed. But where the turkeys get the virus remained a mystery. The Columbia River's wild ducks were suspected because they mooch free meals in the turkey runs. But Dr. Donald Mason (on loan to Oregon from the U.S. Public Health Service) admitted: "We may never know whether the ducks gave the disease to the turkeys, or vice versa...
...spare parts, lists of vehicles that use them, detailed inventories in major depots from Japan to West Germany. If, for example, the Army needs to check world supplies of tank crankshafts, Bizmac will compile records no more than 48 hours old, bring forth the reply in three minutes, feed it out at a speed of 600 printed lines a minute. To print up a new catalogue of spare parts...
...press the proper buttons, and Bizmac's 25 electric tapewriters will clack out pages ready for offset photography. Able as it is, Bizmac is only the prototype of even better computers that will be capable of running entire factories. Tomorrow's great brain will start up machinery, feed in raw materials, switch from one product to the next as orders come in, convey parts to assembly lines, put them together, inspect, box, band and load finished products into freight cars and trucks...