Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propagandists of Red China and Russia make it apparent that their purpose is to dominate all of Southeast Asia . . . the so-called 'rice bowl' which helps to feed the densely populated region that extends from India to Japan. It is rich in many raw materials such as tin, oil, rubber and iron ore [and lies] astride the most direct and best-developed sea and air routes between the Pacific and South Asia. It has major naval and air bases...
...bamboo cages and carried them on shoulder poles into Lucknow. The train hauled them 260 miles to New Delhi. There, 1,000 specimens carefully chosen for health and size (4 to 8 Ibs. apiece) were collected. Then a four-engine transport flew them, with a full-time attendant to feed and water them three times a day, the 4,000 miles to London. Next, another plane and another attendant took them 3,000 miles to New York's Idlewild Airport and trucks carried them 700 miles to Okatie Farms in South Carolina. There the rhesus monkeys from India were...
...Communist masters of China are having trouble with the peasants. Those who must farm the land to feed the world's most populous country do not seem to have got the idea at all. In fact, most of them suffer from "spontaneous tendencies toward capitalism." Others, unable to see the logic of increasing output or wealth only to have to give it up to government confiscators, are now afflicted, say the propagandists, with the delusion that poverty is best...
...Jack," he recalls, "behaved as if he had a Hooper rating of 28 and was in direct competition with Jack Benny." Breen moved into Webb's $30-a-month room. A little later KGO was asked to fill an empty Sunday night half hour "for a Pacific feed" (all West Coast ABC stations). Breen, who was fascinated by San Francisco's Embarcadero, put together a hard-boiled private-eye show about waterfront crime, called it Pat Novak for Hire. Webb was Pat Novak...
...remain shut to Japan. One reason for this abstinence is an ingrained hatred of Japan left over from wartime abuses. But far more important are the crippled economics of the Eastern countries. Bridled by antiquated methods of production, the mainland countries, far from exporting food, can barely manage to feed their own people...