Word: eating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their catch. The Communists also put pressure on Macao fish merchants not to buy from the refugees. Both pressure and promise failed. In desperation, some fishermen tried eking out a living with odd jobs ashore, or by begging in the streets; they had almost nothing to eat in Macao, but still would not go back. Last week, with 500 Chinese junks still in Macao harbor, Peking tried another approach...
...faced with the problem of absorbing 100,000 new immigrants (mostly from Communist Rumania), the government last week slapped new taxes, up to 70%, on consumer goods, ranging from aspirin to refrigerators. It abolished rationing, price controls and subsidies on essential foodstuffs and proclaimed a "compulsory loan," which would eat up as much as 12% of salaries after taxes...
...would be a very poor move," suggested Gordon Fair, Master of Dunster House, which has its own kitchen. He claimed that "uniform menus would deprive stewards in independent kitchens of all initiative." Fair also stressed that the present system, by providing variety, gives students more choice in what they eat...
...this, Mr. and Mrs. Brown and David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House will assign 'Cliffe concentrators to House tutors. Faculty associates of Winthrop will often eat lunch at the Annex dormitory, "in an informal atmosphere that is not possible at the weekly guest dinners that now take place," Brown said...
Mating by Tabulator. Both Vantress and Saglio approach their work with one goal: to get a bird that will eat the least amount of feed, grow the fastest, dress out to a completely standard bird with a minimum of waste. Thanks chiefly to this breeding, in 20 years the time and feed needed to raise a 3-lb. chicken for market have dropped from 14 weeks and 12 Ibs. of feed to 8½weeks and 6|¾ Ibs. The five-year goal: a 3-lb. chicken in six weeks...