Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government officials makes a lack of organization the greatest cause of improper food handling. As a result, starvation has already set in. In Southern India, though the Provincial Governess have kept a strict rationing of food, thousands upon thousands of people have only about 960 calories in their daily diet. In some districts, the dearth of rice is even greater...
During the three and one-half week food economy program in the dining halls, the savings totaled 87 cents per man, enough to buy 5,220 calories of food, substantially enough to supplement the diet of a European student for about three days...
...Russia. Finland's Reds and the Agrarian Party's "Greens" work together in Finland's left-of-center Government. Each of the three major parties -the Communist-dominated Democratic People's Union, the Social Democrats and the Agrarians-holds about one-quarter of the Diet's 200 seats...
Only three Cabinet ministers are Communist Party members. Of these the dominant figure is Yrjö Leino, Minister of the Interior. His wife-pretty Hertta Kuusinen-is leader of the Democratic People's Union in the Diet, and daughter of the President of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic which incorporated southeastern Finland after...
Apparently assuming that summertime audiences are not anxious to strain their overheated energies in witnessing heavy, provocative drama, the local summer theatre group has been serving up a light diet of mysteries and comedies, spiced by the presence of some well-known personalities in its recent bill-of-fare. Its latest offering, fully in keeping with that policy, is Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," the semi-psychological thriller which enjoyed a successful tour some four years ago and subsequently emerged as a Hollywood epic ("Gaslight") in 1944. If Francis Lederer's performance in the "name" role falls short...