Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's economic resources on a series of "shock programs" -above all, the great campaign to produce pig iron and steel in homemade blast furnaces-the Communists had created labor shortages in agriculture and industry, had so snarled China's inadequate transportation network that shipments of food and vital raw materials into the big industrial cities had dwindled to trickles...
...journal Red Flag demanded fewer shock programs, insisted that even during such programs, "sufficient labor should be reserved for normal production." In Manchuria, local planners, quick to take a hint, announced that railway laborers "drawn from the water conservancy and iron and steel battlefronts . . . will be asked to handle food shipments in the way they handled iron and steel...
...this strenuous action did not get enough trains back on the run. So many key trainmen stayed out that service was reduced by as much as a half and trains ran hours behind schedule. Rotting cargo piled up at freight sidings through the country, and a food shortage threatened Mexico City...
...color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint Catherine's monastery. The expedition packed in their own food supplies, since the 13 monks that keep the monastery cannot spare any food from the sparse yield of their parched garden patch...
Died. Alfred di Lelio, 77, Rome restaurateur known as "the King of Fettuccine," who-under a spotlight, with house lights dark and violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine...