Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haiti's 3,000,000 poor blacks, who eat one meal a day and fight to live on about an acre of land apiece, had long been asmolder. Wartime speculation and spreading inflation left the masses ripe for rabble-rousing...
...July 31, the Christian Science Monitor confirmed those facts, according to the Committee, and set the average daily calorific value of a student's meal in Vienna at 1,161 calories, as compared with the standard of 2,500 calories required for a normal sedentary existence...
...present board rate of $10.50 per week or 50 cents per meal is in keeping with the University's policy of holding student board bills as low as possible and still covering expenses, the letter continued. Reynolds pointed out that the nominal charge of 50 cents per meal does not cover the cost of each meal. The cost of each meal to the University is roughly 63 cents: 30 cents for food, 20 cents for labor, and 13 cents for other expenses...
...make up for this difference the University officials take into consideration the fact the the average student consumes only 16 meals per week. Reynolds emphasized the fact that a student who eats every meal receives over $13 worth of food...
Since the dining halls run on a close margin and one year's surplus has to balance another's deficit, adoption of this plan would mean a commensurate rise in either the seven-day resident rate or in the charge per meal, Reynolds concluded...