Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reinvest their profits in upgrading the soil. Tenants, who can usually be dispossessed at will with no compensation for any improvements they have made, are understandably reluctant to make any. The Shah has struck hard at one landlord privilege by ordering an end to the "gifts" of cattle and food traditionally taken by the landlords from their peasants on the eve of festivals...
...give López Mateos' 1,000,000 new Mexicans houses and food, to raise the nation's standards of living, to lift members of the lower class into a better life at the same rate as recent years, Mexico must create 1,650 new jobs every day. In this task Adolfo López Mateos will probably cut close to the pattern of welfare-state capitalism that has given his country its great splurge of growth...
...power plants. He winked at corruption in government, got rich quick. Puritanical Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, who followed Alemán in 1952, took the role of consolidator. He hooked up power lines and irrigation canals to Alemán's dams, cleaned up corruption, opened new areas for food growing. Quietly, he encouraged foreign investors to flood into Mexico with capital, machinery, ideas to feed the boom that incoming President Adolfo López Mateos inherited this week...
...your superstitions on good food--here is a little more information. Certain foods, such as meats, vegetables, and fruit (milk is not always on the lunch meal), are much easier to digest, and, therefore, better for the athlete before exerting himself. The price for all this is less than $5 a person (4,000 students x $5 equals $20,000), and you must also remember that each boy can eat only one meal, either at the varsity club or in his house...
Even the old argument that good food is necessary for good athletic performance has lost much of its force, in the face of strong medical evidence to the contrary. An exhaustive study by three doctors at the Harvard School of Public Health two years ago seemed to prove that the physiological effects of the training meal were negligible. The only consolation offered to old-school devotees was the possibility of psychological benefits--viz. "the sense of security generally attainable by the practice of rituals" or ego-building derived from "eating red meat as a symbol of manly vigor...