Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor Thomas E. Dewey allotted $200,000 to spread instructions on home canning throughout the state to preserve a maximum amount of food. Also before Governor Dewey was the report of his Emergency Food Commission. Gist of the report: the nation must shift from a meat to a grain diet, must stretch its grain crops to the last ounce by feeding them directly to people instead of to livestock to be converted to meat. (The average hog takes seven pounds of corn to produce one pound of table pork...
...full accordance with the requirements of good health, it will be necessary as a practical measure to concentrate on intermediate goals which can be progressively raised. . . ." The conference made public a minimum dietary standard to provide a yardstick for judging the sufficiency or insufficiency of the diets of all peoples, and translated this into an ideal American diet. The diet, for one person, for one day: Ten ounces of grain products, such as bread and cereals. Slightly more than one pint of milk. A half pound of starch-rich vegetables, such as potatoes or yams...
...Japs had expected a long stay on Attu. Their food supplies were ample: shrimp and crab meat and bamboo shoots, spices and soy sauce and dried black seaweed for flavoring rice. They varied this diet by catching salmon and halibut, shooting Emperor geese and Yukon River ducks. They had hundreds of gallons of sake...
Planned Defense. The Air Ministry does its best to beat off the irritating raids. An elaborate watch and signaling system can at best only hope to give ground gunners 50 seconds' warning, so sharpshooter gunners are being trained by special diet and physical exercises to quicken their perceptions. They must be able to range, sight and destroy targets within five seconds. Sharpshooters must agree to live a monastic regime. On duty the gunners are not allowed to stoop even to pick up a dropped coin...
...list: dl-glutamic acid hydrochloride. It is helpful only in petit mal (temporary loss of consciousness) and psychic attacks (unreasonable behavior with amnesia). It is not effective for convulsions. The drug probably acts by acidifying the blood-a beneficial effect formerly achieved only by an extremely unpleasant fatty diet...