Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wisely" the dollars have been spent, I can only say that it is up to a joint committee of American and Spanish officials to determine the priority and ultimate destination of these dollars, which are allocated to furnish the Spanish economy with raw materials, food, heavy and light industrial equipment and transport items-those goods that are most urgently needed by Spain. The held opinion in the Administration, in Congress, and in my country is that the Spanish-American program is one of the most efficiently run, ably planned, and carefully supervised programs carried out by the International Cooperation Administration...
...children in capitalist countries suffer from poverty. From such isolated instances, it is no trick for the Soviet press to jump to the sweeping generalization and, if necessary, to the outright lie ("While hungry American children look for a slice of stale bread, the stores are crammed with food which is left...
Some of the products of charlatans have an ancient history. A turn-of-the-century fashion in ample bosoms produced "Bust-O-Fill"; the current bosom-conscious fad has resulted in "Kurv-On," "La Contour" and "Charm-On," which, says the Food and Drug Administration, "have about the same effect on the development or structure of the female breast as Smith Brothers cough drops." The "magic detector" of Dr. Albert Abrams, a roaring success in the '20s, popped up again last year in San Francisco. The detector enabled Dr. Abrams to "tune in on the electric vibration coming from...
...price average. But Bureau Price Chief H. E. Riley said that the change was an expected seasonal rise that has taken place every year but one since 1947. Though further small rises may take place in the next few months, harvests are expected to lower food prices in the fall...
...there were French and Indians to fight, Rogers' stock was high. His most famous raid, which took him 150 miles into enemy territory, obliterated the troublesome Indian village at St. Francis, near the St. Lawrence River. The raiders had bad luck; the French discovered their cache of food and boats for the return voyage, and cut off all possibility of retreat. "This unlucky circumstance," Rogers recorded laconically, "put us in some consternation." But the Rangers pushed on, slogged for nine straight days through a vast spruce bog. Sacking the Indian town was comparatively easy, but the journey back...