Word: literates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PRICES IN FRANCS Bread Milk Wine (1 kilo) (1 liter) (1 liter...
...Habit. Pulque, compounded of fermented cactus juice from a Mexican century plant, is a malodorous, milky-looking sour liquid which sells for ten centavos (2?) a liter, is swished down by low-class Mexicans as a substitute for water, which in Mexico is scant and bad. Some scientists believe that pulque's yeast and vitamins offset the unbalanced diet of chili, corn and beans, act as a counterirritant to hot peppers. But that is the best that can be said for it. Its production is unsanitary. Its sale is in filthy, squalid pubs. Its consumption produces a stumbling goofiness...
...have started daily supplementary feeding of 84,000 school children in Unoccupied France. They now have food stocks in France sufficient to continue the rations for 20 weeks, hope also to get permission to buy 200 tons of milk now available in Switzerland so they can give a half-liter of milk daily to 10,000 French babies who may very well starve this winter without...