Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article about Farmer North is certainly a Horatio Alger story, but with subsidies and soil bank, are we sure he didn't have a helping hand from a rich relative-namely, Uncle...
...reception marking the signing with Iraq of a major new $138 million Soviet loan agreement. The agreement, pledging the Iraqis a twelve-year credit for building a steel mill and at least 14 factories, thrust the Soviet Union into Britain's old place at the center of oil-rich Iraq's economic development. The first 80 Soviet technicians, said Iraq's Communist-lining Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba. would arrive within a month...
...Sunday Every Day." The trouble, says Dr. Keys, is that for 50 years technical progress and higher standards of living have added too many rich, fatty items, formerly luxuries, to the everyday U.S. diet-"Sunday dinner is no longer special . . . We have Sunday every day." Americans who used to get an estimated 30% of their daily calories in fats now get 40% or more in that form; Keys recommends a cutback to between 25% and 30%. More important, only about half of this fat should be saturated (the chemists' way of saying that the available carbon atoms...
...Starches have been downgraded too drastically in the U.S. dietary revolution -some of them are not "empty calories, ' but rich in vitamins, and should be eaten to make up the calorie deficit caused by cutting down on fats...
...immigrant Lithuanian shopkeeper, Chesler grew up in Peterborough, Ont., quit university to go to work on Toronto's Bay Street. As a customer's man for the brokerage firm of Draper Dobie & Co. Ltd., he showed a talent for picking the right stocks, later grew rich underwriting dozens of Canada's new mining projects, chiefly those of Ventures Limited, the mining colossus...