Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been using in their flour a compound called nitrogen trichloride. It bleaches wheat flour and saves months in the aging process (hence the trade name: Agene). It is now used in 80% of U.S. white flour. Sir Edward Mellanby of Britain's Medical Research Council fed a concentrated diet of highly Agenized bread to dogs he was using in an experiment on nutrition, published the frightening results in the British Medical Journal two years ago. The flour had caused "running fits"; most of the dogs that did not recover in 30 minutes died...
...figured how much food the world could produce if it really tried. As a mark to shoot at, he took an estimate by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) of how much food it would take to give every person living in 1960 an "adequate diet" (about what Americans get). By 1960, FAO believes, there will be 2,250 million people on the planet (other experts consider this estimate high). They will need 21% more cereals than the 1936-39 average, 46% more meat, twice as much milk...
...behind the achievement liad been painfully simple: eat less, work more, which to British planners meant: cut imports, increase exports. If it worked once, said the White Paper, it ought to work again. Britons might get a few more eggs, otherwise rations would stay the same. On this dreary diet they were being asked during the coming year to hike production by roughly the same percentages as they had achieved in the past year...
Rambling Variety. For many readers brought up on conventional diet, Pound's Cantos may not seem like poetry at all. They are rambling, fragmentary, written in a bewildering variety of languages; sometimes they degenerate into mere sputtering diatribes...
...disintegration of the Ashida cabinet left Japan in a political vacuum, just when a special Diet session was due to discuss a new minimum wage level for government employees (present level: about $14 a month). More serious was the resulting complete disillusionment with his government displayed by the Japanese man in the street. The U.S. had given Japan a new constitution, new slogans, new faces. It had not changed the real constitution of Japan-the skein of bribery which had held the country before the war and which continued to exist behind MacArthur's upright back...