Word: feeding
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...Government quota and could not plant his excess land to anything but hay and pasturage. Now he can plant it to anything he pleases, except the major crops, potatoes and a small list of commercial vegetables. Benson expected that most of the decontrolled acreage would be planted to feed grains and forage crops, which farmers badly need, especially in areas hit by drought and heat...
...Five Southern states (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina) are designated drought disaster areas. Farmers in those states will get increased subsidies for purchase of Government-owned feed for livestock...
Radical Partisan. Ives was born Jan. 24, in 1896, in upstate Bainbridge, the only child of a moderately well-to-do coal "and feed merchant. After two years at Hamilton College, he went off to serve in World War I as an infantry lieutenant in France. After the war he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton, settled briefly in Brooklyn with his wife and infant son. Ives had a hard time stretching his $100-a-month salary as a bank clerk to cover the family bills, became an embittered, somewhat radical partisan of the underprivileged. When another bank offered...
...very English boys' school, built by a madman in Gothic tempered by Byzantine, and run by a monstrous regiment of headmaster, masters and matrons, against all of whom Nigel is plotting revolution. He proclaims: "When we arrive in our helicopters we shall take over the skool and feed all with cream. FREE THE SLAVES...
...between Socialism and the United States, but we do not believe these differences can be properly settled by war." When a Socialist brought up the subject of tuna fish irradiated by H-bombs that the Japanese would not eat, Bevan brought down the house with the wisecracking suggestion: "Feed the tuna to U.S. servicemen stationed in Japan...