Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With food already scarce, Red China's population of 630 million is increasing by an alarming 15 million every year. This not only means extra mouths to feed, it means taking time off to feed them. In one Shanghai textile mill alone 7,000 men and women workers produced exactly 7,000 children during the seven years of the law. In another factory, 17% of the women got pregnant twice within one year...
Recently, government statisticians estimated that without strict birth control China's population will reach 855 million in 15 years' time, pointed out that even with all the country's remaining virgin land broken up and cultivated, there would still not be enough food for all mouths. "Without planned childbirth," said China's brisk, close-cropped (female) Minister of Health Li Teh-chuan, "China will never be truly free...
...successes: ¶Varian Associates was founded in 1948 in Palo Alto, Calif, by Physicist Russell and Engineer Sigurd Varian as a company that had "nothing to offer but advanced technology and ideas." Today, as the biggest producer of the klystron tube, which guides Air Force missiles and irradiates Army food, Varian has grown from seven employees to 1,230, did an annual business of $11 million in 1956. Estimated 1957 sales: up another 27% to $14 million...
...levels. There are, of course, the beards. The beards are to an extent echoes of the Oxonian, and many have mildly literary connotations: their owners make themselves reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence, or even Shaw. But above all they are from abroad, and have the same exciting piquancy as imported food. The bearded faces in the Square are juxtaposed, indeed one might say thrust out glaring, noses touching, to the shiny, just-shaven whey face of the average American business man. Outside of the Schweppesman, nobody can get ahead in the business world bearded; it is such a contrast that...
...Eurydice, than on Jupiter's attempts to get her away from the tender mercies of her kidnaper, Pluto, so that he may have her for his own tender mercies. Jupiter's efforts are complicated by a revolution on the part of the lesser gods, who are bored with the food in heaven. The proceedings have been rendered into generally amusing English by Wayne Shirley, who translated the lyrics, and Anne Rand Eldridge, who did the dialogue. F. William Kaufman provides some touches of satire in the form of additional dialogue, which consists largely of references to recent Broadway and Harvard...