Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harkness lost $27,000 last year, and the large scale changes in service are intended to attract greater numbers of students. Food sales at the graduate dining hall have dropped steadily during the last few years with competition from Square restaurants...
...immaculate pumice-walled cells of the colony students are relaxing in the privacy of individual bedrooms and are furnishing austere living rooms. At meal times the House feeds its members as they pass by the brightly lit food counter. It whirs them quickly from floor to floor and through its spiracular windows provides lofty views of Cambridge...
Grass & Ferns. The impulse Tenderer is actually more efficient than a cow, since it diverts none of its food to its own uses. One hundred pounds of ordinary fresh-cut grass yield 3 to 4 lbs. of protein, 8.5 Ibs. of fiber and ½ lb. of syrup containing vitamins, hormones and steroids. The fiber can be made into various sorts of fiber-boards or used for fires in fuel-poor countries that burn dried cow dung. Chayen's machine can also digest ferns, weeds, leaves of jungle trees...
While every broad segment is expanding, the expansion is relatively slow in manufacturing (total number of firms up only 3% over 1951), faster in transportation, communications and other public utilities (up 18%), and faster still in construction (up 26%). In trade, the supermarket has cut the total number of food and related stores by 14%, but with many more new products to be distributed there has been an 18% expansion in the number of wholesaling concerns. Since 1951, old-fashioned general merchandise stores have declined 9%. But with more and more people on the go, restaurants are up 4%, automotive...
...negligible influence on the world's currencies ; the job of reconstruction needed before currency stabilization proved too big. But by 1956, the year Jacobsson took over, the Fund got its first big chance to show what it could do when Egypt seized the Suez Canal, then blocked oil, food and other vital supplies from Europe, and touched off a disastrous run on the British pound...