Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed of technological changes," she said, "makes it difficult for us to see what kind of a civilization we are building. It is difficult for the poor fellow who works in the factory, who has all he can do to clothe, house, and feed his family, to know where he's going...
...wisdom of 1914 noted that "the milk of each animal ... is especially adapted to the requirements of the young of that species." This alone was supposed to convince every mother that she must nurse her child. As of 1951: "It is the spirit in which you feed your baby that counts, rather than the particular kind of milk he gets...
...that of the whole breakfast-food industry-grew out of the Health Reform Institute, a water cure operated in Battle Creek by the Seventh Day Adventists. When they abandoned it in 1876, Kellogg's doctor-brother, John, turned it into the Battle Creek Sanitarium, invented flaked cereals to feed his patients. One of them, C. W. Post, took up the idea, made a success marketing Post Toasties and Grape Nuts. Thus encouraged, Kellogg set up-at the age of 39-his own cereal plant, capitalized on the nation's first enthusiasm for the new, ready-to-serve product...
...looks like a put-up job. Football brings him fleeting glory, leaves him no time to study, wins him only the snooty tolerance of Jackson's aristocrats and (until the fadeout) the well-born girl (Donna Reed) he loves. It crushes his body and his self-respect to feed the ambitions of a string-pulling alumnus (Sidney Blackmer) and a coach (Otto Hulett) with the face and temperament of a Gestapo...
...rate of $2.5 billion a month, is really just getting under way, will rise to at least twice that before it tapers off. By the time it slackens, two or three years hence, huge new backlogs of deferred demand for peacetime goods are expected to accumulate and feed the boom. Eventually, any boom largely resting on such artificial props as deficit spending and arms production (as this one now is) must end, if not in a collapse, in at least a severe recession. But for the next few years, at least, bulls see nothing but higher prices for everything, including...