Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road of flight: California, the rich, full, well-watered San Joaquin Valley, where vast orchards and fields seemed magically alive with grapes, potatoes, peaches, cotton. Those were the bad years, and the Okies-300,000 of them-were hungry for work. Desolate, they moved from harvest to harvest-scrounging food for emaciated children, bedding down in farm shacks or U.S. Government emergency camps, harried by highway patrolmen and sheriffs' deputies-to become a symbol in fact and fiction of the desperate injustices wrought by drought and Depression...
...Prince Akihito, 24 this week, reported to his three humble tutors on his studies of fish psychology. First, he had trained some salmon, bass and carp to associate their feeding time with the lighting of a red lamp. Having established a conditioned reflex which led the fish to expect food whenever the light was switched on. Akihito then impaired their vision by tinkering with their ophthalmic nerves. His scientific conclusion from the experiment (no surprise): the delicate operation caused the fish to "lose their previous ability to connect the lamp's red glow with food...
...milk a proper food for healthy adults? Is whisky a proper medication for sleepless infants? Last week these questions were being hotly debated in the medical profession...
...contracts. The Administration hopes to hold down the totals by cutting such items as the farm program and aid to veterans, but few politicos think it will be successful. If anything, spending on the farm program-a huge $5 billion in 1957-may rise in 1958 to keep surplus food from collapsing the market. At year's end the 1958 harvest of the winter wheat crop was estimated at a near record of 906 million bu., 28% above the year before and one more sad reminder of the failure of the farm program to cut surpluses. With revenues estimated...
...Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug for routine use before shipment, but still bans it immediately before slaughter on the chance that some of the steer's contentedness might be passed on to the customer...