Word: eating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operations setup in the industry, spends 70% of American's dollar. A onetime barnstorming pilot, football coach and city manager, Mosier was hand-picked by Smith in 1938, is gearing every part of American's operation to such jet-age innovations as new fuel supplies (the jets eat up 2,000 gal. of kerosene per hour). American's 1,000 maintenance men must virtually relearn their jobs; the jet training manual alone consists of two volumes four inches thick. ¶ Charles A. Rheinstrom, 56, executive vice president for sales, quit American in 1946 after 18 years, went...
...world population stood at just under 2 billion. Today, "only 27 years later, there are 2,800,000,000 of us." People keep breeding, as it were, behind Huxley's back. Clean water, penicillin, DDT are also to blame, he says. Soon there will not be enough to eat, Huxley warns, and suggests that occupancy of this planet by more than 3 billion persons is dangerous and should be unlawful...
...Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Kerr
Worst plague of Florida cattle is a large bluish fly called the screwworm. The adult female lays eggs on wounds or scratches! and the eggs hatch into maggots that literally eat the victim alive. Screwworm maggots can kill a full-grown steer in less than ten days. But last week, with the enthusiastic approval of cattlemen, planes were scattering millions of live screwworm flies over Florida rangelands...
...Groom reported, the hearts studied showed twice as much atherosclerosis (the form of arteriosclerosis that affects the coronary arteries) as did the hearts collected in Haiti by Dr. Vergniaud Péan. Why? Their diets did not differ significantly except in two respects: the Haitians got far less to eat, and as many as 42% in the poorer classes were underweight, while as many as 30% of better-fixed Charleston Negroes were overweight; also, the Haitians had practically no cholesterol in their diet, while the South Carolinians had six to 20 times as much (mostly from eggs...