Word: feeding
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Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams started these rumblings last week by revealing that 24 million bushels of surplus U.S. livestock feed grains had somehow gone astray. The grain was supposed to have been shipped to Austria between 1959 and 1962 in a complex intergovernmental barter deal, but Administration officials admitted that international grain dealers had apparently reaped lush profits by illegally diverting most of the stuff to West Germany and selling it there...
...dealers arranged to have the shipments moved from such ports as Hamburg and Bremen directly into West German and other European markets, where grain brings premium prices. It was months later that a U.S. embassy official in Vienna compared shipping records and realized that while 40 million bushels of feed had left U.S. ports, only 16 million had ever reached Austria. Six Austrian grain importers were arrested and released on bail ranging up to $200,000, one of the highest figures in the country's history, for "mis-labeling." Since the U.S. Government demands cash or letters of credit...
...Goal. The 88th has passed and sent to the President only four items of legislation. One was a measure lifting the already much-raised ceiling on the national debt. The others merely continued existing arrangements: the draft, the Korean war corporation and excise taxes, and the livestock feed-grains program...
...Republicans in Congress, especially in the House, have displayed rare unity this year in opposing the President. Of the 178 Republicans in the House, only one went along with Kennedy's latest request for an increase in the debt ceiling, and only one voted for the Administration feed-grains bill...
...every cookbook, there are 50 kookbooks, with titles like The Galloping Gourmet, What Cooks in Suburbia, Wolf in Chefs Clothing, Feed the Brute, Wurst You Were Here, and Abalone to Zabaglione. Apparently, publishers will publish anything that has recipes in it. There is a recent book called Fine Food, Wine, and Pickled Pine, for example, which is subtitled "The Story of Coventry Forge Inn" and contains a chapter headed "Our Recipes-Haute and Not so Haute." The negative approach is big these days. Holt, Rinehart & Winston has put out The Madison Avenue Cookbook "for people who can't cook...