Word: flours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chicken for 28? per Ib. Five pounds of flour for 48?. Six bottles of soda for 38?. A decade ago? A generation ago? No, this month in Atlanta, where the Richway food stores rolled back prices in the hope of attracting some attention...
...times past when a family could afford to eat without thinking about the price. The customers were smiling in Atlanta, something few Americans have done in grocery stores for years. But with the sale over, reality - and inflation - returned. Chicken was going for 54? per Ib., five pounds of flour for 98?, and a six-pack of soda...
...good old days in Austin, Texas, say 1970, a guy could risk trouble for deriding country-and-western music, or merely hollering the words "rock 'n' roll." This was, after all, the ancestral home of Texas Swing, where the Light Crust Doughboys had helped elect a flour salesman, W. Lee O'Daniel, Governor in 1938. Even such talented native Texans as Singers Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter, blues rockers both, had been forced to head as far away from Austin as possible to make the big time...
...movements might contribute to so many diverse diseases are complex and indirect, the Burkitt group concedes. Diverticulosis-in which the large bowel is deeply pitted and fecal material is trapped in the crevices-appears to be directly related to a diet rich in such highly refined carbohydrates as white flour and sugar. Tumors, both benign and malignant, are related to biochemical and bacterial changes caused by long retention of feces. As for heart disease: "Evidence is accumulating that shows that the removal of fiber from the diet raises serum cholesterol levels, a process that predisposes to coronary heart disease...
Giroud's mission is monumental if taken literally. Despite recent gains, the prevailing attitude toward women in France is aptly expressed by last year's popular song, Hands in the Flour: "I love my wife in the living room, I love my wife in the bedroom, but I love her best in the kitchen, with her hands in the flour." Idealized as wives and mothers, French women were almost the last in Europe to leave the home and go to work. Though 40% of the labor force is now made up of women, their total income is only...