Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida orangemen pleaded that the stuff had not been proved to be harmful in the minute quantities that might enter an orange eater's system. Overruling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court held that in the coal-tar provisions of the Food. Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938, "harmless" plainly means absolutely harmless, and that therefore Red 32 "is not to be used at all." Unless Congress amends the law, Florida orangemen are going to have to convince housewives that yellow oranges can be just as good as orange oranges...
...party conclaver comrades were told that 99% of the peasants are now in communes, i.e., jammed into barracks (TIME, Dec. 1). But plainly, things had gone too fast. And though the Reds proclaimed a bumper crop of 375 million tons of grains, there was a serious shortage of food in the cities. This could be partly explained by the fouled-up transportation system. Under the forced industrialization drive, trucks and trains that might have transported food were kept busy rushing from place to place with loads of pig iron ineptly made in thousands of primitive village smelters...
Tidying Up. A committee resolution proposed that a worker might be more efficient if he got at least eight hours' sleep a night and was fed "decent food." The Central Committee promised a "tidying up, consolidation and expansion" of the rural communes-but then revealingly added that, for the present, communes would not be extended to urban centers because "bourgeois ideology is still prevalent in the cities." Tibet (where Red troops have their hands full with the rebellious Khamba tribesmen) was also exempted from the dubious joys of the people's communes. The Communists now soft-pedal their...
...made speeches to the crowds, walked side by side along dusty roads. Nehru's sophisticated aides, their minds on turbo-electric power, had once brushed off this holy man's ideas. But now Nehru needed Bhave's help to find for India a way of raising food production and the peasant standard of living without using the coercion and brutality employed by Red China...
Luxury & Convenience. No one learned the lessons of innovation better than the nation's butchers, bakers and grocerymen. People tend to think of food as a standard, largely static item. But in 1958's new economy, nearly 50% of the products sold were not available in their present form at the end of World War II. By offering the consumer a constant parade of new ways