Word: hottentot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington no one seemed to know exactly what the President had in mind. How much would it cost? Who would foot the bill? Maybe it wasn't another offer of a bottle of milk to every Hottentot, but it sounded as if the U.S. proposed to tell the Hottentots how to run a dairy...
...Paul F. Douglass, the University's president: "If all the money spent on this war since 1934 was distributed equally to all the people of the world, every man, woman and child (over two billion people in the world) would receive more than $500." At this rate, every Hottentot could have had 3,000 quarts of grade A milk...
Henceforth Reuters' big sales force in Europe, the Middle East, India and South Africa will devote part of their time to building Gasoline Alleys on the Danube and giving every Hottentot a daily diet of Dick Tracy. In return, the Tribune-News syndicate's wide-traveling salesmen in the South and West will take Reuters everywhere that Little Orphan Annie goes...
Negotiations continue, but, said a Chungking spokesman: "It is like a Hottentot talking to an Eskimo...
...time traveling around the country for the heifer program. Son of a Brethren preacher, he thought up the heifer plan under an almond tree in Murcia, Spain, where he was engaged in relief work during the Spanish Civil War. Spain's undernourished children, with less milk than a Hottentot, inspired him with the thought of importing U.S. cows to Spain...