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...nation does not want into something that it needs. With 260 million surplus bushels of wheat already in the Government's hands (and many million more unwanted bushels soon to be harvested), the Government planned to sell a fraction (125 million bushels) of its hoard for use as fodder, at 83? a bushel. As fodder, the unneeded grain would be converted into much-needed meat and eggs. More than that, by releasing some of the stored wheat, grain prices would be kept from rising to artificial heights...
...acres). With a 33% acreage gain, soybeans and flaxseed will overtake cotton; peanuts have already outstripped rye. Soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed, grown mostly for their oil, now replace the coconut, palm and linseed oil imported by the tankerful before the war. But soybeans also make top-notch fodder and Henry Ford has even made a soybean plastic automobile. Flax makes linen; peanuts make tasty, vitamin-rich soldier rations...
...German and Japanese ministries of information may no longer be able to supply the pro Fascist publishers of these poison-sheets-with appropriate material for their columns, but such outside fodder is unnecessary. All that's needed is sympathy and admiration for an absolute government, hatred and contempt for democracy, a hysterical fear of Communism, a fanatical dread of "the Jewish octopus," a passionate antipathy toward Roosevelt or the British, or any combination of these elements. A large and responsive group of readers can easily be found. Unfortunately, the "unity" of the American people, a fourth of-July catchword which...
...Hitler is exterminating the German identity as well as attempting to kill off believers in opposing ways of life," Viereck maintained. He added that Hitler makes those opposing his ambitions his cannon targets, while those who follow him become his cannon fodder...
...abandoned the town, hit southward to Agedabia, 95 miles from Bengasi. Here he waited for the remainder of his armored forces to come in from Mechili farther north. Fighting a rear-guard action for both his units were Italy's desert infantry. To Rommel they were cannon fodder to save his tanks and armored cars...