Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion, an increase of $12.5 billion over 1951, due to higher tax rates and continued prosperity. Individual income and employment taxes (up 20% to $36 billion) accounted for almost half the total increase; corporation and excess profits levies rose from $16.5 to $22 billion. Other taxes, e.g., on tobacco, alcohol, telephone calls and theater tickets, brought in an additional $10 billion, up $1 billion over...
Actual research covers myriad fields. It ranges from work on air filtration sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission, to highway safety studies and improved methods of transportation, and back to research in the calcium requirements of Americans. Causes of overweight are being investigated side-by-side with dangers from alcohol...
...gave her the star turn in his physicultural demonstrations-that of springing nightly off a high table and landing "with both feet together on his breadbasket."* Between springs he poured into her astonished ear the truth about the breadbasket-how the Macfadden stomach revolted against breakfasts, steaks and alcohol, and how steel-strong it grew on a regimen of nuts, raw carrots and beet juice. She knew that he loved her when he took her on a 20-mile hike; they had barely covered half the distance when he popped the question. When she said yes, "he stood...
...spent watching TV? Another committee decision. Mrs. Benson hands out work assignments according to ability: a few years back, one Benson tyke, too small for any other job, was given responsibility for keeping the soap dish clean. Like all good Mormons, the Bensons neither smoke nor drink alcohol. They take no coffee or tea, eat meat sparingly...
...makes 80, boasts that the only one it ever had to drop was the automobile crank. It has helped develop such things as aircraft valves containing liquid sodium inside as a coolant; an engine valve cap that turns slightly with each strike, thus eliminating warping and pitting; an alcohol-water injection system to get more power out of gasoline; simplified valve tappets; improved fuel pumps and piston rings...