Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delaware, Senator John ("Whispering Willie") Williams, the chicken-feed dealer who started the Internal Revenue Bureau scandal exposures, outran Lieut. Governor Alexis I. du Pont Bayard. Williams' standing as an exposer of corruption enabled him to overcome the formidable qualifications of Bayard, who comes from a direct line of five U.S. Senators (from his father to his great-great-great-grandfather), and whose mother is a du Pont...
...crowded Kikuyu reserve, north of Nairobi. Scores of thousands of Kukes live there; and in the fertile areas, population density reaches 600 per sq. mi. Every scrap of arable land is terraced to the hilltops, yet only one Kuke family in ten has enough land to feed itself. The white holdings vary from a few acres (for poultry) to several square miles (for cattle ranching...
...World War II should have taught us all one lesson. The lesson is this: To vacillate, to hesitate-to appease even by merely betraying unsteady purpose-is to feed a dictator's appetite for conquest and to invite war itself. That lesson-which should have firmly guided every great decision of our leadership through these later years-was ignored in the development of the Administration's policies for Asia...
After raising a bumper catepillar crop one summer. Walcott realized that the oak season would soon be over, leaving nothing to feed the baby caterpillars; hence the idea of frozen caterpillar food originated...
...biggest difficulties facing researchers in search of a polio vaccine has been the fact that polio virus could not be grown in a laboratory without rare and expensive nutrients for the virus to feed on (e.g., monkey testicles). Last week Dr. Herald R. Cox reported that Lederle Laboratories has found a way to grow the Lansing strain of virus in fertile hens' eggs, has already made a vaccine which works on monkeys...