Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recalled Ernesto da Silva, 17, sitting in a rocky field in the drought-burned eastern state of Pernambuco. "She was a widow but not old. She lay down by the road and told me to go. A man gave me 40? for a day's work. I bought food and hurried back to my mother, but when I got there she was dead...
...flagelo da seca, the dry whip that lashes the bulge country on the average of once a decade, was in its third month of fury. Some 370,000 flagelados (whipped ones) supported themselves and their families on relief wages of 30? a day -half the food allowance of a Brazilian army horse...
President Juscelino Kubitschek has shipped in 7,000 tons of food and 10,000 tons more is en route. But corruption is commonplace among the local relief agencies that give out the supplies. In one town political bosses pocketed a flat 25% from each man's 30?. In other areas the government farmed out relief projects to private contractors who paid off flage-lados in unwanted goods, e.g., hair oil, then bought it back at half price...
Even so, Pabst had no trouble getting the press to go along with the story. In fact, 63 newsmen went all the way to Mettenheim and back on the trip. Resuit : a classic example of the big-business press junket that plys the newsmen with free food, drink, travel and entertainment in exchange for his weary-eyed presence at trumped-up events ranging from the re-enactment of the ride of Paul Revere (American Airlines) to a "bake out" in Paris (Pillsbury Mills). "Beverage of Peace." In U.S. journal ism the junket has become an institution ranking somewhere between...
...longer space voyages, lasting weeks, months or years, all the difficulties of food, drink and elimination snowball. Weight is the first, worst foe of the rocketeer trying to get a manned capsule into space, so everything that can possibly be saved and re-used must be conserved. Hence the futuristic proposals that in addition to recycling his oxygen supply (perhaps with elaborate photolysis, to break down the accumulating carbon dioxide), the space pilot will have to recycle his body wastes. Extraction of palatable water, though still not perfected, might be practicable for space flight if the equipment weight could...