Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manager of the Dining Halls William A. Heaman pointed out, however, that the halls served 3,284,798 meals in 1953-4, bringing the profit to only three tenths of a cent per meal...
...infirmary at Central State, patients have been retrained and sent to more open, hopeful wards. All are out of bed, wearing clothes, and lining up regularly for a hot meal. Throughout the hospital, drugs such as chlorpromazine (TIME, June 14) are used along with music therapy to bring patients out of their withdrawn states. Straitjackets. "camisoles" and irons have vanished; solitary confinement has been cut to a minimum...
Schwerin's staff studied some 2,400,000 individual meals, recommended such changes as a cut in soup (which G.I.s did not care for) and a boost in ice cream. He also worked out a formula for predicting how many soldiers would show up for a given meal, thus cut waste. The Army followed the report, saving taxpayers an estimated $110 million yearly...
Dining hall wages have been increased from $.75 to $.85 per hour in most places. In addition all dining hall students will for the first time be given one free meal per day, prorated at a $.67 daily value...
...stand, slight, white-haired Fleming made it plain he considered the recordings "just a bunch of hogwash," but had "cooperated" in return for Red favors-"dog meat for a meal or a couple of sulfa pills." He had told his fellow prisoners: "I cannot tell you to resist; it's up to you. Let your conscience be your guide." Personally, he said, he cared only about survival for his men and himself. "I decided," said Colonel Fleming, "that the most futile thing in the world was a dead prisoner...