Word: spinach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week several important sponsors took a more adult tone in their messages. On CBS's evening news roundup, United Fruit went so far as to advise cabbage and spinach along with grapefruit and bananas for the balanced wartime diet. Curt and clearly patriotic was Gruen, which snapped: "Buy a Gruen watch, but buy a defense bond first...
...orders would also play hob with West Coast agriculture. In the Los Angeles area, Japanese produce more than half the truck crops?especially celery, spinach, beets, string beans?vegetables which take infinite work and patience. In Santa Cruz County, a $500,000 crop of sprouts and artichokes awaited harvesting by Italians. Most of California's tomato crop, which accounts for a fourth of U.S. canned tomatoes, has been grown by Japanese farmers...
...sugar-cane plantations; trucks churn through fields to pick up oranges and grapefruit; the strawberry crop moves out by the carload; small farmers ride to town in wagons brimming with cucumbers, squash, eggplant. In Texas' Rio Grande Valley it is harvest time for grapefruit and cabbage, for tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, peppers, carrots and beets...
...Tennysonian notion that it is not a soldier's business to reason why is so much spinach to the U.S. Army; and this week the Army firmly said to hell with it. At Army posts all over the U.S., selected officers and civilians began to deliver twice-weekly lectures on post-World War I history, U.S. military and foreign policy, the contrary policies of the Axis...
...Food is so inadequate that every disease is influenced by malnutrition. The average diet in North China rarely includes meat, consists of yellow corn and millet flour, sometimes mixed with soybean flour, and sesame or peanut oil. People who have a little money eat spinach, cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North...