Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victims of last summer's Drought. The President himself had proclaimed that "an acute emergency" existed for which the Red Cross must have $10,000,000 at once, in contributions from citizens. The Senators, balked twice before by President Hoover in their desire to send Federal money to feed and clothe Drought sufferers, now proposed that to the $10,000,000 which citizens were going to give the Red Cross, $25,000,000 be added instanter from the Treasury. This proposal had the immediate effect of all but killing the Red Cross drive among citizens. In all the land...
What brought Chairman Payne to the Capitol was the fact that the Red Cross was under political fire. Senators from drought States were charging that it had fallen down on its relief job, were demanding that the U. S. Government step in and feed hungry husbandmen. Congressional attention had again been focussed on drought relief by last fortnight's demonstration at England, Ark. where 500 men & women with threats of violence obtained food from local merchants (TIME...
Judge Payne's Red Cross was President Hoover's only reliance for human relief in drought-ridden areas. The President's program provided that the Government would supply loans to feed mules, to buy seed for a new crop, but that the Red Cross must minister to the physical wants of destitute farmers themselves. This plan when put into legislation engendered fierce political disputes (TIME, Dec. 29). Putting aside his political principles as a Democrat, Chairman Payne appeared before the Senate Committee to support his Republican President's relief program...
...Lower prices. ¶ Increased speed and power. ¶ Greater number of cylinders (there are new 16s, 12s and more eights than ever before). ¶ Feed pumps for the fuel. ¶ More quiet, less vibration. ¶ Oil flow improvement and oil tempera- ure control. ¶ Ease in gear-shifting. ¶ Fender wells for the spare tires. ¶ Pastel shades in paint...
...radiator has been added. Prices not yet announced. Plymouth. New body styles with a wide-shell radiator, motors with fuel pumps, greater speed and acceleration. Cost: $535 up. Packard in its line of eights showed small change in body design but a new fuel pump which provides a steady feed and prevents boiling of the gasoline. All new Packards have wider and longer springs, automatic chassis lubrication. For the first time Packard is showing its own custom-made bodies. Prices: $2,385 up. Hudson worked two years on the new riveted body for its eights. All the exterior hardware...