Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati, the President promised "a decent diet, a decent education and a reasonable amount of leisure'' to 25,000 citizens sitting in the rain. In Cleveland he once again assured honest business of his friendship but accused Wall Street of flooding the land with anti-New Deal literature paid for with stockholders' money. At week's end Nominee Roosevelt coasted into New York for live brief talks in upstate Republican territory, rested overnight at Hyde Park, set off to Washington whence after two days he planned to carry his message of Prosperity to hostile New England...
...diet limited to soybeans is not fed to livestock because it makes them too fat. But farmers can feed them the meal left over after the oil has been extracted. Silage made from soy plants mixed with cornstalks produces more milk, more meat than straight corn silage. For overworked soil, nitrogenous soy plants are a good builder-up. A green crop of them plowed under will often increase the yield of wheat 6 bu. per acre...
...time Socialist and Alaska miner named Sig Soren persuades old Theophilus Fleming, utilities tycoon, that the movement holds no threat to business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists, well-to-do radicals. The EPIC campaign shakes it and the contradictory government pol icy toward self-help co-operatives nearly wrecks it. Sig Soren (now happily mar ried to the girl who escaped from the white slavers) visits Washington, confers with President Roosevelt...
...expressions of esteem from its employes were its only diet, the steel industry would have been on starvation rations for years. The late Judge Elbert Gary gave his name to a city, but never during his lifetime was that hard-bitten old steelmaster honored by workers marching behind brass bands. Last week four little towns in the Allegheny Valley closed shop & school to turn out in personal tribute to the 75-year-old president of their local steel company, Allegheny Steel's Harry E. Sheldon. It was Constitution Day for the rest of the U. S., but for Tarentum...
...Macfadden's New Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, and so debilitate himself in that winter sporting capital as to require a season at "Physcultopathist" Macfadden's Physical Culture Hotel at Dansville, N. Y. (rates $33.50 to $80 per week, with extras). There he might choose a Macfadden diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer's cramp. Patrons showing up in "trances" are warned that they must pay their own attendants...