Sentence examples for surplus commodity from inspiring English sources

"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.

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.

Yet, in the weeks and months afterward, it became clear that the campaign had made some difference, especially in terms of building relationships among individual participants, connecting members of a burgeoning Chicano movement with one another and enhancing federal anti-hunger policies through surplus commodities, cheaper food stamps and even changes to welfare.

JBS, one of the biggest meatpacking companies in the world, will sell 1.8 million pounds of pork products through a Trump bailout program that buys surplus commodities from farmers and ranchers, say records published by the Agricultural Marketing Service, a branch of the Agriculture Department.

What Foulston really responds to is the invention, from the end of the 17th century, of shops as dedicated premises offering social situations in which women could buy non-necessities formerly obtainable only to order from their crafters or at the great annual fairs that brought together enough surplus commodities to froth over into trivia.