Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign purchasers more than $5 a bushel, payable in hard-to-get U.S. credit. As for the U.S., it had saved next to nothing so far by Charles Luckman's noisy grain conservation plan. The U.S. was still feeding some 90 million tons of grain a year to livestock; a tenth of that would avert next spring's crisis...
...next time the battle may not be won-even at such cost. Said Dr. M. R. Clarkson, Department of Agriculture scientist: "If the disease ever gets across the Rio Grande, it would cost the U.S. at least $1 billion a year. It will affect all parts of the livestock industry, and it would be almost impossible to check...
...years. U.S. nutritionists have long been pro-soybean, pointing out that soybean protein is as good as the protein of meat, containing all the amino acids which the human body needs. Last year U.S. farmers raised 196,725,000 bushels of soybeans and fed nearly all of them to livestock, which returned only a fraction of the precious protein as meat or eggs or milk...
...elaborate operations of looking the other way; that the difficult, hard, controversial issues of the day should be avoided and the people should not be told our views upon them; that a long vacation trip should be taken admiring mountains and lakes and rivers and flowers and crops and livestock. These riders of regal reaction hold that a position of photogenic availability should be maintained until such time as a key group of their men, with delegates in their pockets, make hard, tough, secret deals for a nomination...
...certain basic commodities 3) wage ceilings for the industries that produce such goods 4) strengthened rent controls 5) allocation of scarce commodities 6) regulation of speculative trading on commodity exchanges 7) restoration of consumer credit controls 8) measures to conserve and make the most efficient use of grain and livestock...