Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farms, stocked with 900 dairy cows, 9,000 hens (output: 2.5 million eggs annually), 8,000 turkeys, 200 beef cattle and 6,000 purebred hogs, rang up some $1,750,000 in sales. Schnering went into the risky business of raising broilers and, after experimenting with the chicks' diet, cut the growing time from twelve weeks to eleven weeks. He grossed $785,000 on 550,000 broilers...
...America. Her husband, who could not afford medicine or hospital care, had not heard from the pensions investigator who had finally arrived to look into his case. Bruno was as bare as ever, and the baby, Enzo, was getting by with a cotton singlet. All of them shared a diet which Lucia described as 'a little pasta, a little greens...
...impossible to get (although the striking stevedores were unloading relief ships from the mainland at the usual rates of pay). A few bags of potatoes and onions shipped by parcel post were gobbled up at the fancy price of 25? a pound. Rice, a staple of Hawaii's diet, was scarce. There was barely enough canned milk to feed the babies and scarcely enough feed to keep livestock and chickens alive. Mrs. Dorothy Lai had to close her little chop suey joint for lack of food, and with it went her life savings. Edmund Locke, whose small farm-equipment...
...counteract its propaganda effect, Publisher Starr and Editor Gould opened up shop in New York and flew the weekly edition to Free China for distribution. Barely a month after V-J day, Gould was back in his old Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed a story at the last minute, Gould filled the hole with an ad: "Printing done and tango taught at Shanghai Evening Post...
...with a qualified physician, then faithful following of the course he prescribes. Effective treatment usually takes a long time, includes a combination of processes: the removal of excessive oil from the skin by the gentle application of soap and hot water, proper extraction of blackheads, plenty of sunlight, proper diet with a firm limit on starches, sweets and fats, adequate exercise and rest...