Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appears to be little more than a barren rock jutting out into the North Atlantic sea and air lanes. It is a land of clammy summer fogs and lashing North Atlantic storms; its climate and soil are so forbidding that the islanders must import a full 90% of their food. St. John's was the last spot of North American soil that Charles Lindbergh glimpsed as he headed eastward in his epic flight to Paris; from Newfoundland's Signal Hill Marconi received the first transatlantic radio message...
From one of its steadiest suppliers, a British frozen-food company received a chilly ultimatum: either boost its price for peas (currently $126 a ton) or move all that pea-picking machinery off the Norfolk property. The hard-bargaining farm owner: Queen Elizabeth...
National characteristics not only show up in food, fashion and love, but also in sport-particularly in ice hockey. Canada's own game is like the land itself: rugged and bruising, a body-contact sport something like a combination of lacrosse (another Canadian game) and football. European hockey is so different as to be barely recognizable at times. While Canadians are trained to deliver solid body and board checks, the Europeans tend to play hockey like soccer, as a game of finesse with greater emphasis on pinpoint passing and Fancy Dan pattern plays...
...from the rising business (up 20%) of merchants to the soaring price of good imported whisky and bad local women. The town's new taste of high life is even giddier. Producer Jim Hill adorned the place with his glittering wife, Rita Hayworth. Rugged Charles Bickford had his food flown in from a Hollywood gourmet shop, including 100 steaks for which there were no adequate freezing facilities...
ANTIFUNGUS PILL that combats athlete's foot, ringworm and other fungus diseases will be sold in U.S., if Food and Drug Administration approves, by Johnson & Johnson and Schering Corp. It was developed by Britain's big Glaxo Laboratories...