Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lenox Athletic Club. Whenever he could cadge the price of a meal, he always filled his pockets with restaurant toothpicks. "Most of the time I'm on the Harlem diet now," he explained. "When I'm hungry and I ain't got the price of a feed, I drink a glass of water and pick my teeth. Then I use my imagination...
Author Hoagland does not deal with the gay and colorful spectacle that can be observed by the dazzled ticketholders. His hero is a young alcoholic who has hit the end of the trail, takes a job helping to feed and look after the "cats"-the lions, tigers and leopards. From the first he is called "Fiddler," because it has been so long since he had the price of a haircut. Down-and-outer that he is, he still has enough fundamental decency in him to be shocked by the human derelicts who do most of the work of the circus...
...Feed, Don't Fight. As his solution to Algeria's troubles, Mendes called for freeing political prisoners held without trial, doling out free food ("It's cheaper than fighting"), honest elections within six months and ultimate splitting up of vast colon estates. Then, taking a lesson from the U.S. 1952 campaign, Mendes capped his proposal by dramatically offering to go to Algeria and stay as long as necessary "to surmount all obstacles...
...serious trouble. All year long Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson manipulated the Government's farm controls, imposed flexible price supports, acreage allotments, marketing quotas. But he was running a losing race against the technology of farming. With bigger machines, better seed and fertilizer, farmers produced enough to feed a much bigger population, and the nation's surpluses mounted-14.5 million bales of cotton, 938 million bu. of wheat, 3.2 billion bu. of corn. Inevitably, farm prices skidded, and gross farm income dropped to $32.6 billion, down $4.5 billion in four years...
Internal Insecticide. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced success with a long-held dream of agricultural chemists: an insecticide that makes the whole plant deadly to insects that try to feed on it. The chemical, called Thimet for short,* was developed by American Cyanamid Co. It is mixed 50-50 with carbon dust, and 8 lbs. of the blend is mixed with 100 lbs. of cottonseed before planting. The cost for an acre of cotton...