Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land is the Agriculture Act of 1947. Proposed by the Labor government in the austerity days of pressing food shortages and trade deficits, it offered the farmers a bargain: "guaranteed prices and assured markets" in exchange for an obligation to maintain certain standards of production. The law set up in each county Agricultural Executive Committees (A.E.C.) composed of twelve farmers, who were charged with overseeing all the farmers within their jurisdiction, with the right to inspect whenever they chose, to prowl through barns and fields, to impose advice, and if dissatisfied, to evict those who failed to meet their standards...
...When six Food and Drug Administration inspectors were assigned to root out dangerous and illegal sales of amphetamine stay-awake drugs-better known as "bennies." "pep pills" or "co-pilots"-to over-the-road truck drivers, they had to work as truckers themselves. The FDA men usually operate without disguise, but the FBI taught them tricks of undercover work, and trucking-company representatives gave them tips on trucking. Willing companies hired them after first putting them through school. Then the FDA men went on the road, taking day or night jobs in the East, Midwest and South, bunking in truck...
...last and record his adventures in a book. As he talked of his voyage, the onetime staff officer allowed himself to boast only of his efficient staff work. A long five years and nine months out of England, he had miscalculated only once: when he ran out of food on the last two days of the last lap across the Tasman...
...Virginia, and Kentucky are among the most advanced to be found anywhere in the U.S. Built for the low cost of $16,000 per bed, the hospitals were designed for maximum efficiency, minimum operating cost. Each "chain-store" hospital is laid out around a central service core, from which food and drugs move by assembly belt and dumb-waiter to dispatch stations on every floor. A centralized administration and service center at Williamson, W. Va. will keep the books and do the housekeeping, e.g., maintenance, filling of prescriptions, laundry, for the whole system. Thus the cost of administering the medical...
Civil Liberties. In Albuquerque, City Health Director Wayne Stell asked some celebrators of the city's 250th anniversary not to grow beards longer than six inches: "If they let 'em get any longer, we may have to require those who are food handlers to wear snoods...