Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With her conquests Germany now holds two-fifths of the green fields of Europe. France gave up the Paris Basin, which normally grew all the wheat she needed. Denmark, Europe's dairy and No. 1 world exporter of butter, was rifled of her stocks of butter, cheese, eggs, fodder, of her farm animals. Belgium, which just manages to feed herself, had no great surplus on hand, but The Netherlands had 2,750,000 head of cattle, 650,000 sheep, half a million pigs, tons of butter, cheese, meat, milk, margarine and vegetable oils that were added to the Nazi...
...food supplies seized were an immediate gain for 70,000,000 Nazi gullets, fine for a short war. But Europe has never been able to feed herself, let alone secure a balanced diet, without importing great quantities of foodstuffs, fodder, fertilizers. France made up most of her deficit with imports from Morocco. The Balkan States have long been selling their small exportable food surplus to Germany. If there is surplus food in Russia with all her great grain fields, it is a State secret. As a whole the territory that Hitler took merely added to his domains more territory that...
Finns Cannon-Fodder...
...with Finland, the ex-Baron blamed "those who wanted to use the Finns as cannon-fodder to weaken the Soviet Union...
...special gift to earth. Osborn was a leading eugenist in the days when many believed that the "unfit" should be weeded out rather than cared for under public health measures which coddled weaklings, allowed them to reproduce, ultimately lead to an inferior stock. While these ideas have occasionally furnished fodder for opponents of public housing, relief, the New Deal, the only places where they are still flourishing today are Nazi Germany and Italy. Long before Henry Osborn died in 1935, a new generation was hard at work knocking them down...