Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the blackjacks of power that Jimmy Hoffa's 1,400,000-member Teamster Brotherhood uses to dominate the U.S. trucking industry are collective-bargaining clauses barring trucking companies from transporting "hot cargoes." A hot cargo can be anything at all, even frozen food; what makes it hot is that, somewhere in the course of its travels, it has been handled by a company that is nonunion or is having union trouble. By forcing trucking firms to contract not to handle hot cargoes, the Teamsters make it more difficult for other truckers to hold out against Teamster pressure...
Formosa. Though only 20% of the land is arable, the island not only feeds 9,000,000 civilians and 500,000 soldiers, but exports food as well. The U.S., which has come through with $2 billion in aid since 1951, provides the military hardware and meets half the military payroll. The press is effectively controlled, and any threat of internal subversion by the Chinese Communists is kept well in hand by the zealous (some say too zealous) security police called the Peace Preservation Corps. Stern and 70, Chiang Kai-shek rules party, army and people as firmly as ever...
...about 95% of the yearly total. Iron-ore production, mostly by the United States Steel Corp. mines at Cerro Bolivar, increased by a third in 1957 to about 15 million tons. Irrigation projects and rapid farm mechanization have boosted agriculture until Venezuela now produces 85% of its own food. New investments and a protectionist policy for inefficient industry have boosted production of everything from paint and cement to soap and tires...
...adapted by James Yaffe from a story by Friedrich Duerren-matt. A sales executive (Gary Merrill) stumbled out of a New England blizzard to find shelter in an old-fashioned mansion where four retired men in dinner jackets almost seemed to be waiting for him. They plied him with food and brandy, and he amiably agreed after dinner to join them in the parlor game that enabled them to practice once more their former professions as judge, prosecutor and defense attorney. Merrill would be the defendant. The crime? He could think of none that he had committed. But soon, between...
Infant Feeder. A gadget that resembles a large hypodermic syringe has been developed by California's Deemer-Howard Associates for feeding solids and cereals to infants. Consisting of a transparent plastic tube with a plunger on one end that pushes food through to a nipple on the other end. the Infa-Feeder is designed to eliminate the usual messiness associated with infant feeding time. But it will probably not outsmart babies really determined to plaster their faces with food. Price...