Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...computers are expensive, and they require specialized mathematicians to feed their problems to them. To make their talents more easily available, Electronics Associates, Inc. of Long Branch...
Said Rancher Bowring: "In the long run, rigid price supports take from the farmer more than he receives. They encourage him to deplete his soil. They saddle the markets with surpluses which give him no opportunity to realize full parity. They destroy the normal relationship of feed and livestock prices. They encourage the development of competitive synthetics . . . They place farmers in such a position that they lose much of their freedom to make management decisions...
...Port-au-Prince, a big bonfire crackled one day last week. Some 200 Haitians, dressed in their cotton Sunday best, watched intently while an old lady threw object after object into the flames-bottles to bubble when a thief is in the garden, carved wooden bowls from which to feed the gods, wanga bags to protect the traveler, love charms, colored beads, mysterious, headless dolls. Granny Holdeman was having another "burning." Granny's ceremonial burning of voodoo charms and fetishes is a potent symbol in a land where dark gods and hungry spirits sometimes seem more at home than...
Outside a busy factory in Birmingham, England last week, "Help Wanted" signs went up for 200 workers. The Hercules Cycle & Motor Co., one of the Big Three of Britain's thriving bicycle industry, was adding a new assembly line to feed the hungry export demand for British bikes. The hungriest customer is the U.S. Before the war, Britain shipped only 4,000 bikes a year to the U.S. This year imports rose to 110,000 during the first four months (usually the slow season). This was too much success for U.S. bikemakers, who demanded a boost in the tariff...
...heavyweight champion of the world was off his feed. There were long faces at the Catskill Mountain training camp where Rocky Marciano was getting ready for his fight with Challenger Ezzard Charles. In that green corner of the "Borscht Belt," most men are measured by the size of their appetites. Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops. To make matters worse...