Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day Mayer was called back to his ship and then ordered to London to become a member of DeGaulle's private staff. Not so young four years later when he rejoined Mrs. Mayer after D-Day, Mayer and his beautiful wife returned to America, his college diploma summa cum laude in hand and his war decorations in a trunk. Mayer said, "I never had that Scott Fitzgerald youth that one can imagine enjoying to the hilt . . . After spending five years as an artillery officer engaging in wholescale destruction, I wanted to help rebuild the world through science." He came...
Some mothers today remember Dr. Mayer as the man who went on TV to say that monosodium glutamate (trade name Accent) in baby foods might be harming their children. He says today that consumers no longer know what they eat. "In 1949 ninety per cent of the food sold was for the housewife. Now only fifty per cent is, and at least half of that is highly-processed with all sorts of additives-vegetable protein substitutes for meat and excessive salt to mask the taste of excessive sugar and on and on." Mayer wants calories, proteins, and minerals to appear...
...Food chains," Mayer reports, "are more willing to go along with reforms than the manufacturers. Chains and supermarkets will always sell food, but the manufacturers are afraid that the markets for their biggest money-makers will disappear." Mayer harbors no deep love for General Mills and General Foods but he is hesitant to have one corporation reform itself unilaterally while the others make a killing. "It is right, I think, that there be tough national food and drug regulations, complete with enforcement provisions...
Since 1968, when he served as chairman of the National Council on Hunger and Malnutrition, scientist Mayer has become the spokesman for nutritionist muckrackers in the United States. Asked by Nixon to organize the first White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health, Mayer tried to emphasize that Americans, especially old people and single women with small children in both the North and the South, still starve. "More than ten per cent of our total population," he said. At the Conference Mayer pointed out that the very poor in rural areas were not on welfare. He named 500 counties...
Since the Washington conference in December 1969, Dr. Mayer reports that all counties now have food programs. Most of these county programs involve food stamps, which unlike the older commodity distribution ("surplus food') plan, does not depend on traveling large distances to food pick up sites in transportation which the poor do not have...