Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth straight month, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of living jumped another notch, rose .4% to a new record of 118.7 on the 1947-49 average, 3.6% higher than February of 1956. Except for clothing, every major group of consumer goods was more costly, with food prices up .7% for the month to a Ievel 4.4% higher than at the same time last year. Will the rise continue? Said Labor Statistics Commissioner Ewan Clague: no one can tell "because there are so many factors moving in different directions...
Prize Catch. In Manhattan hotels dozens of engineering firms set up plush suites and "hospitality rooms," where liquor and food were plentiful. Radio Corp. of America alone hired nine rooms at the Waldorf-Astoria, kept ten people busy interviewing some 250 engineers. Said RCA Employment Manager John R. Weld: "Convention time recruiting is our largest single effort." Motorola, which last year hired 32 engineers as a result of convention interviews, talked to 234 applicants. Bendix spent $10,000 for its convention recruitment program, which included a six-room hotel suite...
Until the reforms get under way, Spain hopes to get a temporary summer fillip from the tourist trade (about $100 million a year). But for the long haul, Spain looks for U.S. aid to put the country on its feet. Since 1954, stopgap U.S. food shipments at times prevented near fam ine, and $460 million in U.S. aid virtually kept the country solvent. Last week Span ish newspapers were blasting the U.S. for doling out less than the $200 million a year that Spain insists it needs. Actually, Spain will get very close to that amount: about $150 million...
...cover A.D.L.'s U.S. expenses (including a $38,300 fee), while the Philippines pay the company's overseas expenses with counterpart pesos. In return, A.D.L. will set up 700 more coops, train a local staff for each, steady the flow of produce to market, stabilize nationwide food prices for farmers and consumers. ¶ It contracted with the Norwegian government to plan industrial development in three northern provinces ravaged in World War II. A.D.L. will survey the region's unused hydroelectric power sites and untapped mineral wealth, try to attract such U.S. industries as aluminum which need cheap...
...person feels that religion and faith are not essential to his thinking and may be rejected or cast aside like tasteless food or bitter medicine, how can that person be expected to have a healthy respect for the rules and regulations that keep our society orderly, free and decent...