Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor relations of practically any industry." For 17 months at American, company and union have been feuding not only over the third man but over hefty demands for higher pay, shorter hours for pilots (65 in the air instead of the present 85 a month), fatter retirement benefits, increased meal and overnight room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering $22,743 to fly turboprop Electras and a 44% hike to $27,650 annually for 707 jets. The Air Line Pilots Association has yet to make a firm...
...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...
...training meal has been a sacred part of the athletic credo for centuries. As a recent study of the matter concluded, "It has its roots in the superstition and magic of the unrecorded past." At one time men ate powdered lion's teeth to make them strong, and similar practices prevail in many primitive cultures even...
...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...
...training meal immediately before an athletic contest, however, is a horse of another color, and this should clearly be retained. But so long as the University pays lip service to the ideal of mixing people with diverse backgrounds and interests, its continued support of the daily training-table will seem very strange indeed...