Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from major industrial centers to be of much value. And the rosy agricultural future that Mao promises does not take into account the possibility of repeated bad harvests ("Weather no longer counts in China"), or the fact that there is presumably a finite limit to the amount of food a given area of ground can produce ("There are no low-yield crops, only low-yield thoughts...
Best guess of many Western specialists is that within a decade or so Red China will reach the day when its food supply is inadequate for its population, even by low Chinese diet standards. If the rice bowl grows much emptier, Mao's promises of a glittering future may cease to assuage his subjects...
Scars of War. In the deadlock. Cuba increasingly shows the scars of civil war: food shortages, shots in the night, silent factories. Havana's flashy hotels echo emptily. Trains that used to go to Santiago now stop short at Santa Clara, in mid-island. Planes fly from heavily guarded terminals, the passengers frisked before they board...
...Cola, Coca Cola and Canada Dry plants operate only two or three days a month. Bacardi Rum's main plant, which used to produce 144,000 bottles a day. last week closed for the first time since 1862. Eggs that once cost 4? apiece are now 10?: most food prices are up at least 40%. Holguin (pop. 82,000) has had no electricity for more than a fortnight. In Guantanamo and Bayamo. townsmen use horse-drawn wagons because there is no gasoline...
Down and out in Paris, grimly poking through garbage cans for rubbish to swap for food, Science Student Jean-Claude Rebours. 20, often thought with irony of the tough philanthropist whose ideas had goaded him into studying the city's clochards-its beggars and bums. It was the notion of Millionaire Jean Walter, who died two years ago at 74, that French lycées placed too much emphasis on book learning. "Our educational system fails to prepare French youth for the tasks to be faced as men," he wrote sternly. "There is not enough contact with life." Jean...