Word: fodders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Folding Fodder. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Jack D. Hogg sued for divorce, tearfully complained that her cowboy husband had given his horse a $10 bill...
...Doubled fodder production, thus replacing from home fields the 5,500,000 tons imported before...
...that moment the potent, stubborn, self-seeking farm bloc was beaten. The vise which it had clamped on Congress, the Administration and the nation (TIME, July 20) was cracked. The vote permitted the Agriculture Department to sell 125 million bushels of Government-owned surplus wheat for fodder (to produce badly needed meat and eggs) at its own price (83? a bushel)-not the inflationary price that the farm bloc wanted. It released the $680,000,000 appropriation which the Department needs for its mammoth wartime food program. For every citizen concerned about feeding the United Nations and avoiding inflation, this...
...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...