Word: meatless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angelus, formerly of BBDO, has started New Products Action Team, Inc., and is searching for a buyer for his Instant Elephant breakfast-food kernels, which pop into animal shapes when milk is added. Foster D. Snell, Inc., which is under contract to several large food firms, is developing meatless ham made of vegetable protein, cholesterol-free eggs, and orange juice without citric acid. The firm also concocts scents for leather products and other goods. "The biggest lure after sight is smell," says Vice President Kurt S. Konigsbacher...
...daily to Cairenes in the shabbiness of their once-exciting city, in the tomblike echoes of the airport terminal, in the empty streets of the Moussky shopping district, where donkeys now outnumber tourists?and in the constant shortages. For four years the capital's citizens have endured three consecutive meatless days a week. Luxury goods have been banned in order to conserve scarce foreign exchange for necessities. Scotch...
...debt of more than $1 billion, an annual trade deficit of $500 million, and more than half of its cotton crop-its principal export-is mortgaged to Communist-bloc nations to pay for past shipments of military hardware. Food is becoming increasingly scarce. The government long ago decreed three meatless days a week, has told Egyptians to eat macaroni instead of their beloved rice, and now faces the prospect of a macaroni shortage unless it can find a way to import vast quantities of wheat...
...increasing number of U.S. Catholics consider compulsory Mass on Sunday an unnecessary chore as anachronistic as meatless Fridays. In a busy and mobile world, they would like a greater freedom of choice. In the West, where circuit-riding priests cannot easily reach scattered communities, many are simply never visited on Sundays. In season at resort areas, local churches are hopelessly jammed. In Europe and Latin America, some dioceses have won papal permission to hold the obligatory service on Saturdays instead...
...Illinois Food Economist William F. Lomasney estimates that the new deal will result in a 10% drop in consumption, which could slice $200 million off the industry's $2 billion yearly retail sales. In heavily Catholic areas such as Boston and Baltimore, the cut could be deeper; when meatless Fridays ended in Canada two months ago, sales in Montreal plunged 35%, have since settled at 25% below the old level...