Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vogt's ideas on world population and world food supply, there were numerous references to "the real soil scientists" who assured TIME that everything will be O.K.-the technologists will find a way to feed everybody . . . That crops can be grown on intensively cultured and fertilized areas of poor soil is not news . . . Where is the unlimited supply of fertilizer coming from-particularly the phosphates...
...Poor Sales. In Detroit, almost any car except Chevrolet, Plymouth and Ford could be bought right off showroom floors without trade-ins. DeSotos and Chryslers could be had with only a few dollars worth of extras (v. a postwar average of about $280 worth for all cars) while Packards could be bought "bare" (without accessories), a sign that the market was down. And across the U.S. used-car dealers were suffering their worst slump since...
...skiers liked the new frills. At present prices, a skier who wants to avoid the poor-relation look must spend almost $300 for a complete outfit. Worried one,: "Skiing is being taken away from the masses. The industry is heading for a real fall, if it's not careful...
...dinners. The number of meals produced per employee is greater in the central kitchen, and the flavor and quality of these meals is definitely inferior. Dispensing meals can never be like building automobiles or libraries, because it is the little extras which spell the difference between good and poor meals. Dishes which have been salted with a shaker always seem tastier than ones in which a pre-determined amount has been dumped and stirred around with an car. Lugging vats of meat and vegetables through stifling steam tunnels to House Dining Halls necessarily renders most food tasteless...
...Even in the best House Dining Halls, the food is not good, though the students are not driven to complaints by its inadequacies. In addition, the University has sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars in the central kitchen and now cannot be expected blithely to abandon it as a poor idea. The quality of Dining Hall food in the five Houses attached to the central kitchen does not require poor meals. It may never rise to Locke Obercan heights, but like University food everywhere, it may definitely be improved...