Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHETHER the news spins off high- speed presses in Chicago or creaks off a missionary's Mimeograph in an African jungle, it is as essential to the mind and spirit of men everywhere as food is to their stomachs...
...mood last week as they boarded the crack Prome Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season. Every seat in the expensive compartments was taken, and the railroad had hitched on extra cattle cars to accommodate hundreds of poorer men and women laden down with baskets of food. At outlying stations, scores of waso pilgrims climbed aboard, further packing the train...
...refunding part of Brazil's $1.2 billion foreign debt so as to ease the repayment strain during the next five years; and 2) long-term loans, actual or promised, covering a large part of the dollar cost of Kubitschek & Co.'s five-year "Power, Transportation and Food" development program. Kubitschek himself plans to make a straightforward appeal to President Eisenhower at the Western Hemisphere Presidents' meeting in Panama. Another Brazilian of distinction who will work for the Ex-Im loan is Rio's new ambassador, to Washington, Ernani do Amaral Peixoto, who arrived in New York...
...still controversial sex-hormone regimen has played the biggest part in achieving this result. Explains Dr. Kountz: "The layman equates these hormones with sex, but equally important is the part they play in nutrition and the ability of the body to use the food it gets. As we grow old, if we don't have a proper hormone balance, the body burns up its own protein. We lose carbohydrates, fat and minerals as well. Even brain tissue is absorbed. We found that old people suffered this loss even if they were eating properly. Then we found out why-they...
...spectacular. Nor were they evident in every line or city. But they did show the overall pattern of slow, steady growth. Buyers in 1954 and 1955 had concentrated on hard goods-autos, furniture, refrigerators, etc.; now they are concentrating on clothes and small appliances, and spending more for food, entertainment and other nondurables...