Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greatest casualty of the fire was an estimated $8500 worth of cigar and tobacco products of the famed tobacconists, since the Pure Food and Drug Act forbids sale of any products possibly contaminated by smoke. Bolter & Co., adjoining Leavitt and Peirce reported no damage despite the heavy outpouring of smoke...
Friends at Court. France has long needed an apostle in the grocery business. With 300,000 food stores, enough to serve the U.S., with a population nearly four times as great, the French people are forced to pay among the highest food markups in the world. When Leclerc began offering 20% off on staple groceries, with up to 70% off on chocolates, razor blades and other specialties, his Landerneau competitors went to war to protect their entrenched position. They first spread false rumors that he was a tool of the church, French labor unions or the French employers' federation...
Oysters à Leclerc. Last September authorities in Grenoble (pop. 140,000) invited Benefactor Leclerc to open a store there to force down food prices, among the highest in France. Within a month the Leclerc store was doing a monthly business of $60,000, improving the diet of Grenoble families with such unaccustomed luxuries as imported fresh oysters at 42? a dozen, against the usual price of $1.43. Promptly, competitors encircled Leclerc's store with six new cut-price outlets, dropped his volume to $24,000 a month. Said Leclerc: "I did not come here to make money...
Among the worst offenders, said Dr. Finland, is Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or the "blue-pus organism," which nowadays crops up more often and with greater virulence. Surprisingly, another problem microbe is Aerobacter aerogenes, found naturally on many food plants and in water and milk, as well as in man's digestive tract. Once rated almost harmless, it is now a killer. In sum, optimists who think it is old-fashioned nonsense to talk about fatal "blood poisoning" are wrong. There are now more deaths from septicemia than there were before the antibiotic age, said Dr. Finland...
...years ago. Back in Britain after a good recovery, he almost forgot it-until last year, when his three children got sick and Taylor was found to be a male "Typhoid Mary." Fired from his job as a batman at an infantry school, Taylor was forbidden to get near food intended for others, found his employment card marked in warning red, could not get a job. Last month he agreed to the standard operation that too many typhoid carriers refuse (though it does not always work)-removal of the gall bladder. Last week, pronounced typhoid free, Taylor downed...