Word: graining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food expert at the Overseas Development Council in Washington, D.C., has suggested that if Americans cut their annual consumption of beef, pork and poultry - currently estimated at 238 lbs. per capita - by only 10%, they could supply the rest of the world with an additional 12 million tons of grain to feed the globe's hungry people...
Things are not that simple. Though about 120 million tons of feed grain is consumed annually by all livestock in the U.S., an unconsumed pound of meat does not magically send grain on its way to the hungry abroad. Someone - almost always the U.S. Government - must buy the grain and see to its delivery to needy countries. For the moment, President Ford has decided that the current...
What is finally most distressing is that there is in fact enough grain in the world now to make up current food deficits if the countries that need it can find the money to buy it. Long-range needs will require that the more affluent nations slow their current gorging, not only of meat but of fuel. And the burgeoning world population, which if left un checked will double within 35 years, must be brought under control. But getting food from where it is most abundant to where it is most needed remains a problem naggingly resistant to easy, conscience...
Carry Nation. After a brief decline, Wichita boomed again in the late 1880s, this time as a grain market and milling center. During harvest, carts and wagons loaded with wheat lined its streets in columns ten blocks long. Sober homesteaders built schools and churches instead of taverns, and Carry Nation carried her cause into the local saloons. The discovery of large oil reserves in 1915 produced another upswing and catapulted Wichita into the 20th century, attracting men like Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna and Lloyd Stearman, who turned the city into the "air capital of America...
...instead of for work-points; but what prompted the argument was the spread of work-points. Men can get up to eleven for a day's work, but women can only get up to eight. It comes to about 80 cents and 65 cents a day, respectively, rent and grain and health care being free, or nearly...