Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no more smugness concerning the average American diet. Nutritionists say it is awful. If so many more of us are going to live longer, the least we can do is enjoy it. High nutrition standards do make happier, more effective mice. We could do with a worldful of happier, more effective...
...materials needed by Britain to continue the fight against Japan. In addition, Lend-Lease goods aimed at easing the hard lot of the war-weary British civilians will then be made available in larger quantities. The two principal items for civilians: 1) more foodstuffs to implement the dreary diet Britons have endured for over six years; 2) building materials and prefabricated houses to provide temporary shelter...
...snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace, plush, velvet. Britain's long-suffering women, plump from their starchy wartime diet, hailed the new order in corsets: it would uplift both midriff and morale...
...Stockbreeders pay great attention to the sires of their cattle. We should attend to our fathers," said London's Dr. George De Swiet last week. He told a working women's conference that he himself took a special diet (emphasis on cod-liver oil and orange juice) before marriage, and recently advised his son to do the same...
...strange and terrible happened to the people in the Southern states when the northern blockade deprived them of salt. The 9,000,000 Confederates had used 300,000,000 Ibs. of salt a year, most of it in curing bacon. Humans were weakened through lack of salt in their diet, and Lee's horses suffered hoof and tongue diseases. Determinedly after the subject, Dr. Lonn spent five years studying the archives at Raleigh, Montgomery, Jackson, New Orleans, Atlanta...