Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew that the European level of life was held down by the division of Europe into tiny fractions. In 1946, plain men everywhere knew it. Unless the standard of life in Europe rose, European civilization would not be possible. Anyone who doubted that could look at Europe's diet statistics, or, better, at such typically present-day European scenes as took place daily in Italy. As U.S. Army trucks carry garbage to dumps, Italians on bicycles fall in behind. When a truck stops, they swarm over it, snatching its scraps...
...been convulsing the Japs with his sharp, satirical songs on the contemporary scene. A score of times his tuneful wit (needling Tojo for wordy communiques, the Zaibatsu for war profiteering in Manchuria, etc.) has landed him in jail. Last month it Landed him in Japan's new Diet, as the head of his own one-candidate Japan Fair Argument Party. Last week a song got him in trouble again...
Hunger. The territory which the World War I treaties left to Austria will, in its present state, produce only 230 calories a day for each Austrian, about a tenth of what he needs. Food imports keep the Austrian diet at nearly 1,200 calories a day. UNRRA reserves in Austria will be exhausted about May 25. After that Austrians may have to live on 500 a day or less...
...shadow of a shady past rose last week to smite ambitious Ichiro Hatoyama. His Liberal Party had won a thumping plurality in Japan's first postwar Diet elections; after long hesitation Premier Shidehara had recommended the stocky, 63-year-old politico to the Emperor as his successor. Then the Allied Supreme Commander spoke. "The Japanese Government," said a MacArthur directive, "having failed to act on its own responsibility, the Supreme Commander has determined the facts relative to Hatoyama's eligibility . . . finds he is an undesirable person." Hatoyama...
...many as 18 natives living chockablock in one small, stove-heated log cabin. He knew that T.B. would never be checked unless cases were isolated. He also knew that the natives' resistance to the white man's plague had been greatly lessened by their narrow, unbalanced diet, by the introduction of white men's fire water, soft drinks, candy and carbohydrates...