Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bushel by bushel, bale by bale, the U.S. has succeeded in cutting down its embarrassing surplus of farm products by $2.9 billion since 1954 (still leaving more than $8 billion), the White House reported last week to Congress. Of that amount, $1.2 billion in surplus food, tobacco and cotton was either sold, bartered (for precious minerals and other materials), or given outright to the needy during the first six months of 1956. Overall, the U.S. lost money in the disposal, from 1) a $1.3 billion deficit on the actual sales and donations, 2) the exchange of surpluses for foreign currency...
...content of arsenate of lead. The source of the deadly fallout: the painted roses of the ceiling. The experts also found that the heavily leaded paint exuded fumes in Rome's humid weather. The conclusion: for 20 months Ambassador Luce had been breathing arsenated fumes, had been eating food and drinking coffee powdered day after day with the deadly white dust...
Southeast Asia. Pakistan, hard-hit by a rice famine, asked the U.S. to set up a food bank stocked with 1.000,000 tons of wheat and rice in Pakistani territory. From it Pakistan and other countries in the region could borrow in emergencies. For a U.S. burdened by wheat and rice surpluses, the plan was attractive if it could be carried out without disrupting Southeast Asia's touchy rice economy. At State the Pak-plan was taken "under active consideration...
Little Li Po gawked at the food on the Huang's table, then pitched in with his chopsticks ahead of everyone else. The Huangs were startled, but his mother remarked defensively that food was scarce in Canton because Red China "is saving to build for the future." "I and young men like me," announced little Li Po at this point, "will be masters of the future." A pall of silence fell over the meal...
...riots were just young people. We saw what happened after the East German riots three years ago. Great carloads of Germans came through here, on their way to Russia. We went down to the tracks to see them. We could not do much. They were hungry. We gave them food. Can't the U.N. do something to keep that from happening...