Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harvesting of the bumper California raisin grape crop, which just ended, was good news last week for pigs, but bad news for taxpayers. The pigs will get most of the surplus raisins for fodder, and the taxpayers will get a bill for about $5,000,000. This giveaway program, just like the expensive program in potatoes and flaxseed, is the result of Congress' love for price supports...
...bishop went on. The chief obstacles before mankind at the present time, he cried, are "overpopulation and starvation," rather than "racialism and war." He blamed this sorry state of affairs on "the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church and the need for cannon fodder affirmed by the new Western religions of nationalism [which] are producing overpopulation in Western civilization...
...dangerous. At least six cases of fatal DDT poisoning have been reported; numerous nonfatal cases are on record. DDT has, indeed, been getting into dairy products: the Department of Agriculture recently issued a directive recommending that farmers stop using the chemical in dairy barns, on milk cows, or on fodder destined for consumption by milk cows...
...various machinations of this Maxwell Anderson stage play are natural fodder for the generation of the quality called suspense, and Director John Huston has made the most of it. Yet Huston suspense has a unique moral overtone. At the same time people are chewing their nails wondering what will happen next, they are also wondering whether an essentially idealistic man can stay hopelessly pessimistic and inactive when he is brought face to face with the personification of evil. The peculiarity of it all is that Huston's moralizing does not impair a mote, mite, or job the entertainment value...
...behind the scenes in Albany, Dewey campaigners were hard at work. Under the direction of State Budget Director John Burton and Banking Superintendent Elliott Bell, a corps of researchers, phrasemakers, specialists, and advisers dug for campaign fodder. One elaborate stunt: a card-index file of every Dewey pronouncement, to be used as a guide for all G.O.P. orators...