Sentence examples for surplus commodities from inspiring English sources

The Surplus Commodities Corporation was incorporated on October 4, 1933, under the name of the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation.

For years, the USDA flooded communities with surplus commodities such as cheese and butter.

Best, because we could feed a larger population and soon had urban centers, specialized laborers, surplus commodities, and various other things that made civilization possible and necessary.

The department buys surplus commodities from farmers, many of which are high in fat, especially saturated fat, and turns them over to schools.

Levine points to the program menus' dependence on agricultural surplus commodities more than on children's nutritional needs, and she discusses the political policy barriers that have limited the number of children receiving meals and which children were served.

Two American servicemen were killed and a third injured in separate incidents today, a deadly reminder of the dangers facing both occupation forces and ordinary Iraqis in a country where the only surplus commodities are weapons.

"We think that's a great price," Mr. Johnston said, "and we're pretty excited about turning a surplus commodity into a really valuable tool for this fire company in Pennsylvania".

Everybody involved was able to make a profit because we had dramatically improved the value of a surplus commodity.

Federal programs to feed the poor go back to the 1930s, and were intended as much to raise the incomes of farmers by distributing surplus farm commodities as to help the poor.

The Bush administration has also started shifting the federal government's support of food banks toward more vegetables and fruits, and away from surplus agricultural commodities like nonfat dry milk, butter, peanut butter and lard.

As Levine and Poppendieck explain, and as I discussed in Food Politics (California, 2007), school lunches started out as a way to dispose of surplus agricultural commodities by feeding hungry kids.