Word: foodstuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal and enjoy it" (TIME, June 1). Hogs undoubtedly eat coal. Many a mid-western porker sees the black lumps of bituminous coal constantly before him supplied by his indulgent master. If munching effectively and with gusto is a mark of enjoyment, then the pigs actually enjoy this unusual foodstuff, apparently considerably more than the average American enjoys his daily slabs of charred bread at breakfast. I wish to point out, however, that enjoyment and digestion are not synonymous. In the case of the hog the coal passes through well pulverized, but it is doubtful if he digests...
...including even cannibalism. "These lives could easily have been saved. While this starvation tragedy was taking place in the Soviet Union, other lands overseas were suffering from a superfluity of grain. World conferences engaged themselves with the problem of a cut in the production of grain. Huge quantities of foodstuffs were destroyed. Within a short space of time this surplus foodstuff could have been shipped to the starvation areas in steamers which, meanwhile for lack of cargo, were rotting away in the various world ports...
...would provide that Britain guarantee to buy hereafter a certain percentage of her grain and other foodstuffs from the Dominions, a larger percentage than she buys at present. Such a guarantee is not a "tariff" but, if feasible, it would give the Dominions all they expect to get from a foodstuff tariff, namely, a chance to sell England more food...