Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your story regarding Argo starch addiction in many pregnant Negro women [July 28]: This is nothing new or astonishing to many Northern doctors. As a former Yankee who was a medical student and intern in Cincinnati during the mid-fifties, I was well aware of this common practice, which was frequently discussed on our ward rounds. While some may believe this eating of starch has profound psychiatric implications, our understanding (based on talking with many of these mothers) is much homelier. Through folklore, many women believe that the starch, in some fashion, enhances the production of vernix caseosa, thereby making...
...version of West Point, the National Military Academy at Dalat, has added two years to its curriculum-plus the innovation that officer candidates can be flunked if they fail to measure up. Next year South Viet Nam will begin its version of a war college for mid-career officers. So high is the enthusiasm for it that the general in charge of central ARVN training wants to be in the first batch of students. Americans in Viet Nam like to recall that only a little more than a decade ago there was an army with much the same...
...firms over such peaks, Kelly Girls and their competitors have built the "temporary help" business from its slender postwar beginnings into an industry with revenues of $500 million a year and a roster of some 1,250,000 part-time workers. The leaders got under way in the mid-1940s-Kelly Services Inc. in Detroit, Manpower Inc. in Milwaukee. Today they are both public companies, a far cry from the days when the industry really began to surge in the late 1950s, and the general expansion of U.S. business began to stretch the supply of skilled office workers...
Flair for Marketing. That was before an enterprising Spaniard named Isaac Carasso began turning it out commercially during World War I. In 1929, in Paris, he opened a plant named Danone for his son Daniel, and called its product "the Dessert of Happy Digestion." Success was modest until the mid-1950s, when Danone caught the public fancy. In 1958, in the Paris suburb of Plessis-Robinson, Danone opened the world's largest yogurt factory, where 350 workers are able to turn out 1,600,000 pots (211,000 quarts) of yogurt a day, seven times as much...
...been for a year, partly because of trade losses stemming from the war in the Middle East. Thus, the $384 million that Britain paid last year for the upkeep of bases outside Europe looked like a luxury. Healey intends to cut this figure to about $168 million by the mid-1970s...