Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economy's Woodrum leaped to his feet. "If I had to live on rations like that," he retorted, "I would write my Congressman here . . . and plead with him to do everything in his power to see that the WPA used the money Congress appropriated for it for food, instead of throwing it away on a lot of foolishness...
...Food. After the war-weary city had displayed white flags from the tallest buildings and the Franco troops had taken possession, 6,500 truckloads of food for half-starved inhabitants began to roll into Madrid. New Franco money (the old Loyalist paper money was declared valueless) arrived by carloads to be exchanged for pre-war currency. Direct train service between the capital and Saragossa was restored after nearly three years. Sandbags piled up in front of buildings on the Gran Via were removed, shutters were pulled up, temporary boarding was torn down. The rooms of hotels long considered unsafe because...
...larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled them all up. For ten days he repeated the process, using larger beads each time, until finally Mrs. Gregory could gulp down a bead the size of a hickory...
...noon the occupation of the city had begun. In the van were the Italian legion, behind them came the Civil Guard in their famous three-cornered hats, and behind them-truck loads & truck loads of food...
Several months ago, Physiologist George Burrill Ray of Brooklyn's Long Island College of Medicine had a hunch that large quantities of a food rich in glycine might do the trick. Last week he announced the remarkable results of experiments with ordinary gelatin, which is 25% glycine...