Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boxed truck parts were swung ashore at the Gulf, assembled into trucks on the spot and filled with supplies. Frequently the supply trucks were across the border into Russia before the Liberty ship which brought them had weighed anchor. Truck drivers worked 20-hour shifts, often on a diet of Spam and bread & jam. A hundred Diesel locomotives hauled tanks, planes, jeeps, command cars, fire engines and ammunition over the tottering railway...
...peacemaking Government of Premier Prince Naruhiko-Higashi-Kuni decreed-for what it was worth to the outside world-that autocracy was out, democracy in. An extraordinary "epochmaking" session of the Diet was summoned for Sept. 4 to legalize the shift. The influential Nippon Times editorialized urgently: "The old order is finished and the work of building a new world must be started immediately...
...bomb-blasted Vienna hotel. His wife Romola told reporters that he had almost regained his reason when he left a Swiss asylum in 1940, but life in air-raided Europe had set him back again. At 55 he looked 70: his cheeks were sunken from a near-starvation diet (he lost 40 pounds in the past four months). A reporter could hold his attention only by drawing him doodles. Yet, though he had not danced in public for about 25 years, he did a dance for soldiers at a Red Army campfire some weeks before. "They even made him drunk...
Daytime radio listeners, who get more soap than opera in their basic diet, last week were promised more opera. The National Association of Broadcasters, the industry's self-regulating Hays Office, "recommended" to its members that daytime commercials be cut to the length of nighttime commercials, as soon as advertising commitments permit. It meant that on 15-minute daytime shows listeners would get 45 seconds more of heart tugs, only two and a half minutes of soap plugs...
Shunning the high-cost variety programs which are standard diet on other networks, ABC instead plans to give listeners a full quota of news, sports events and music; it will also feature special events and public service programs. Already in the works is a special V-J day setup that Versluis boasts will "beat the brains" out of his rival networks...