Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thin and pale people walking listlessly in the streets . . . absolute lack of vitamins in the diet of the masses of the people." These words describing the German populace were spoken last week by thin-lipped Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer, Senior Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...
Professor Elliott went so far as agreeing to ship vitamins to the children of the occupied countries, in connection with a statement by Dr. Brouha that such supplies would be adequate to maintain the balanced diet of small children...
Although I am one of this thoughtless generation (13), I generally read TIME. In the Feb. 24 issue I came across your brilliant (oh, yeah!) expose of comic books. I was amazed: "An overseasoned, indigestible, nerve-shattering, eye-ruining diet of non-comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting." Brother, don't make us laugh...
London's big dailies last week took in their belts yet another notch. Since World War II their diet of newsprint has been cut two-thirds; the size of penny papers has dropped from an average 19 pages to six pages thrice a week and four pages other days, twopenny papers from 22 to ten pages. Most noteworthy is the fact that their lean diet has agreed with them...
From the nutritional standpoint, dairy, fruit and vegetable products have long been a signal deficiency in the U. S. national diet. The next phase of defense is almost certain to see Nutrition emerge as a national slogan. To Agriculture officials, the task of feeding the democracies interlocks nicely with their own long-term aims: move the farmers out of surplus export crops, and give the U. S. better-balanced rations...