Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reports came in that he associated with Communists and attended the meetings of a subversive organization called the Nature Friends of America, gaunt, balding Kendrick M. Cole was unceremoniously suspended from his $4,950-a-year job as a U.S. food and drug inspector in New York. At first Cole refused to reply to the charges, labeling them as "an invasion of my private rights." He quickly changed his mind, asked for an administrative hearing (which was denied), took his case to the courts, and went to work as a tree surgeon. That was three years ago. Last week...
...servant and little better off. Economically, slave labor was on the way out when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and made it profitable to keep huge tracts of land in cultivation. Even so, a rich planter might clear no more than a 1% profit annually. A representative weekly food ration for a slave was "a peck of meal, three pounds of bacon, and a pint of molasses." The housing rule of thumb on the plantations was six Negroes to one room, usually 16 ft. by 18 ft. in size, but the log cabin Lincoln grew up in was meaner...
...effects of ileitis are fairly well-known. Inflammation in the end loops causes the walls of the ileum to become engorged with blood, while the inner surface develops scar tissue. The inflamed area becomes swollen with water. These conditions narrow the passage through which the remnants of food, now mostly digested, pass into the colon. When the closure is extreme, waste matter cannot be discharged...
...year, agreed to merge with Beech-Nut Packing Co., third biggest U.S. chewing-gum maker (after Wrigley, American Chicle). The merger, still to be formally approved by directors and stockholders, was a logical move for both companies. Life Savers was eager to expand. Beech-Nut, which also makes baby food, coffee and peanut butter, had been unable to fatten its profit margin: only $3,747,000 last year, about 4% on $91,084,000 worth of sales, v. Life Savers' 13.5% net on a $20,382,000 gross. Said 73-year-old Edward John Noble, Life Savers' executive...
...Life Savers (which also makes Pine Bros.' cough drops) take over Beech-Nut's chewing-gum business. Noble plans other economies. For example, Beech-Nut, which started out making hickory-cured ham in Canajoharie, N.Y. 65 years ago, has had an increasingly tough job competing in food lines with such giants as General Foods, Standard Brands and H. J. Heinz, could branch into higher-profit products. Bubbled Noble last week: "This will be one last fling...