Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Drummond, 61, famed British biochemist, who had devised Britain's palate-poor but vitamin-rich World War II diet of cabbage salads, carrots, grey wheaten bread, potato pastry, and dried eggs. Scientific adviser to wartime Food Minister Lord Woolton he had developed an emergency meal for the bombed-out called blitz soup, and later a predigested food for starved survivors of Hitler's prison camps. A quiet, modest but convivial man, Sir Jack (he refused to be known by his correct Christian names: John Cecil) had once collaborated with a government scientific worker in a book about...
Stenographers typed in air-conditioned comfort; when they wanted a breather, they strolled into an airy lounge with an outside wall of glass, and sank into deep and comfortable modern chairs. At noon, the 1,200 employees all had a free three-course meal (main course: roast beef) in a spacious cafeteria; afterward, they could stroll along shady paths through 27½ landscaped acres surrounding the building. Off work at 4:15, they could swim in a big (75 ft. by 42 ft.) swimming pool, play tennis on two courts, get a book from the free lending library...
...posters, Syngman Rhee's government has tried to discourage the flaunting of luxuries-yet smugglers do a thriving business in watches, cameras, cosmetics, silks, velvets. The new Mijin ("Beautiful Progress") Hotel is thronged with those who can pay as much as $15 for a room, $5 for a meal, 75? for beer, 50? for coffee. The only acceptable money in the Beautiful Progress is U.S. currency or checks...
Gripes about Memorial Hall food were always prevalent. After 2,300 students claimed in a college poll that they never ate there, the University decided to discontinues the dining hall. Black arm-banded students flocked to the evening meal on January 10 to celebrate the Hall's "Last Supper" with a turkey dinner...
Dean Watson, who is ostensibly administering the new ban, would not comment on it yesterday. The tutors will be issued their 14 and 3 meal coupons, good for one week only. Tutors feel that if this is an economy move, they should at least be allowed to make up missed meals in another week. Under the coupon system, this would not be possible...