Word: cereals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladies behind the counter--Julia, Margaret, and Sally in particular--feted one of our men by a little birthday party very recently. And the Food. The other morning saw the worst form of torture possible thrust upon us as we hungrily passed along the line to find for cereal only one choice, All-Bran...
...Stakman, 59, is perhaps the world's No. 1 expert on cereal diseases. On a 40-acre laboratory plot at Minnesota, he cultivates almost every plant disease known to the Midwest. There are thousands upon thousands. Stake's object is to develop tough new varieties of wheat and other cereals that will resist these diseases. But no sooner does he defeat one disease than a brand-new one, almost invariably, breaks out. Thirty-five years of such battling has convinced Stake that, for all of science, the best man can ever hope to do against bugs and plant...
...very much alive." Feeling Seedy. In Wichita, Mrs. Mil dred Braley learned what happened to her bowl of nasturtium seeds when her test-pilot husband rose heavily from the table, commented: "I can't say I think much of your new brand of breakfast cereal." Bushed. In Los Angeles, Edward Jones tossed $400 into a clump of bushes just before holdup men grabbed the $20 in his wallet; after the robbers had gone, he hustled over to the shrubbery, found his $400 had gone...
...neglected. He was piqued when Ike Eisenhower went off to Europe without taking leave of him. He glared and snapped: "I don't even know the man." Every day he rose at 8, draped a bathrobe over his pajamas and watched his breakfast roll in-grapefruit, cereal, soft-boiled egg, toast, coffee. There were few things an old man could enjoy, but he damn well did like and insist on grapefruit, and for lunch a chop and spinach. He liked spinach. No cigars. Gave up cigars 35 years ago on the advice of his doctor. A touch of whiskey...
More Corn, More Money. Most important of the decrees was the one aimed at increasing corn production. For Mexicans, corn is the staff of life-they eat it in tortillas, as cereal, and on the ear in season-and corn is critically short...