Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Executive Vice President Delmar S. Harder, "automation" first described the automatic transfer of auto parts from one metalworking machine to the next. But its meaning has broadened as fast as its application. A few purists still claim that it should be applied only to completely automatic machines that feed back into themselves reports of how they are doing, and correct themselves if necessary. But most businessmen lump under automation all automatic machines and processes, including the giant tools that follow directions punched on a tape, huge computers that make thousands of intricate mathematical calculations in a fraction...
Opening the second half with a 38-33 edge, the Eli strategy became apparent--feed Lee--a plan vocally approved by the partisan, record-conscious crowd...
...early and stuck with it. Good fortune, in return, stayed with Buffet. His canvases have soared from $50 to a top $10,000 for the largest oils, prices exceeded today only by such giants as Picasso, Braque and Rouault. He gets what he wants, whatever the cost. "You must feed your best horse plenty of oats if you want him to run fast," explained Gallery Owner Emanuel David...
...price drops for farmers, was caused largely by the Agriculture Department's price-support operations on other fronts. In the years 1953-55, some 29 million acres were taken out of wheat and cotton production under the crop quota program. But on 17 million acres farmers started growing feed grains. This and the large corn crops pushed down the price of feed, thus encouraged farmers to raise cattle faster than the demand called for. To add to the trouble, pig production, which normally does not move up with cattle production, also increased. As a result, the estimated farm value...
Thinking that the state's documents might better feed scholars, many people have spoken their minds to the legislature's Committee on State Administration. Plans for a new archives building to be located by the west wing of the State House are now on file. But they have been on file for four years...