Word: bland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Results are sometimes as good-but rarely so dramatic-on the conventional Sippy diet of milk, cream, bland and gooey foods and acid-neutralizing powders. But the Sippy diet does not do much for blood protein. Both diets, being extreme, have a good psychological effect on ulcer patients, which doctors think is one of the most important factors in treatment. Simple proof: ulcer patients, generally a moody, brooding lot, have shown marked improvement after inoculations with distilled water...
...years Virginia's aged, fussy Representative Schuyler Otis Bland and his House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries have sawed & hammered away at a bill designed to answer this question. Last week their bill was launched in the House...
...could possibly reconcile the conflict of interests involved in the final disposition of the U.S. merchant fleet-half of the world's merchant tonnage. Ship owners the world over will disagree with whatever use is made of the 50,000,000 tons of bottoms. The most the Bland bill attempts is to mark a channel of compromise for the U.S. Maritime Commission to follow...
Some buoys set out by the Bland bill...
...last April, the 70 members of the Mrs. Roosevelt's Press Conference Association (founded in 1941) have faced technological unemployment. Bess Truman simply wasn't giving them anything to write about. Last week the President of the M.R.P.C.A., who is the New York Daily News's bland, blue-eyed Ruth Shick Montgomery, served notice on the new First Lady that she had better change her attitude-or else...