Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standard of living at a health and decency level." This concept is hard to pin down, even in societies with lower economic levels. With Americans it is all the more conjectural because an adequate supply of TV sets and pinball machines is harder to determine than an adequate diet level. Nevertheless, the economists figured that 1950's gap between needs and supply-$13.1 billion, or 6% of expenditures-would be slashed to $11.4 billion in 1960, only 4% of expenditures. The figures showed changes in types of shortage. Housing accounted for 30% of 1950's unavailable needs, only...
...Soviet leadership has discovered that a modern industrial society cannot be run on a subsistence economy; that it depends on a regular supply of food; that it depends on a richer supply, and cannot indefinitely operate precision machines at high speed on a diet of rye bread and pickled cucumbers. Khrushchev has staked his own future certainly, and the future of Soviet Russia probably, on his capacity to carry out the third Russian agricultural revolution...
...Student Council last night took steps to improve the undergraduate diet, and to promote informed efficiency among future members of the Permanent Class Committee...
...beer, was not all it appeared to be. Shigeru Yoshida's Liberals, who have not forgiven Hatoyama's Democrats for the ousting of Yoshida after seven years as Premier, voted for Hatoyama as they had promised. But in the balloting for Speaker and Vice Speaker of the Diet's lower house, the conservative Liberals joined with the Socialists to defeat Hatoyama's two Democratic candidates. A Liberal was voted in as Speaker, a Socialist as Vice Speaker. This successful Liberal-Socialist maneuver showed that the new Premier might be at the mercy of similar anti-Hatoyama...
...After a seven-year test involving 2,400 women and 1,699 children, Columbia University's Dr. Arthur I. Gates showed that the children of low-income families on poorly balanced diets will have higher IQs if their mothers get extra vitamins during pregnancy. But this process cannot be extended to breed a race of geniuses: once a woman is getting a healthful diet, even bucketfuls of added vitamins will have no effect on her child...