Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partisan and nonpolitical" C.E.D. sees it, the basic farm-policy difficulty is that too many people in the U.S. are trying to make a living at farming. Farm productivity has soared so fast over the past two decades that despite a steep drop in the number of farmers, food and fiber production has kept outrunning demand. Since demand is not big enough to support all U.S. farmers at free-market prices, the Government has tried to prop up farm income with price supports. But the price-support approach has been a costly, ineffectual flop (TIME...
...said a Madrid communique. Spanish forces gave humane consideration to the "wife of a well-known extremist who fled his village, leaving her behind with three children of less than three years. Every time our planes flew over the village, they remembered to drop by parachute condensed milk and food for the little ones...
...rounds screened by a phalanx of bodyguards, armored cars and secret servicemen. In Surabaya, Sukarno exhorted a rally of 100,000 Indonesians to prepare for hard times. "We must dare!" he cried. "We must start from the bottom. In the next few years we may be short of food, short of clothing." But Sukarno's flamboyance was gone, his melodramatics unconvincing. His audience listened, unmoved...
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 17--Famine and severe food shortages have struck several parts of Indonesia, government quarters said today...
There were unconfirmed reports of food riots, in the wake of crop failures aggravated by a breakdown in distribution as a result of the anti-Dutch campaign...