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...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...
...jampacked meeting on how "current world conditions" affect U.S. women, Publisher Thomas Beck (Crowell-Collier) cried: "The hell with Johnny and his spinach; there are going to be many substitutes for spinach. . . . Are cooking and sewing going to win the war? No! You are going to have to work like men. Industry will win the war. ... If we had less sex distinction, there would be fewer divorces. . . My current wife was making $12,000 a year before she married me, and this ability of hers to do all the things I can do makes her my past, present and future...
Housewives, if you care about vitamins, handle vegetables with care! So warned the British Lancet last week. For most vitamins are frail: any tampering, let alone improper cooking, ruins them. Vitamin A (carrots, spinach, sweet potatoes) is very stable, stands up under boiling. But vitamins B and C (green vegetables, tomatoes, cabbage) run out with the juice when vegetables are cut, soaked, bruised, or boiled for any length of time. Some Lancet cookery tips...