Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only survived but has got himself appointed boss of the Kremlin's recovery plan. He has undertaken to revolutionize Soviet agriculture (for the umpteenth time) by 1956, to more than double its gross output. He promises to raise the supply of meat (230%), butter (190%), cheese (220%), sugar (230%). His record makes it plain that he will stick at nothing to get what he wants...
...Most diabetics can eat a "self-selected, unweighed and unmeasured diet" to suit their own tastes and appetites, even if a little sugar does appear in the urine, said Dr. Edward Tolstoi of Cornell University Medical School. His idea: daily insulin will control the disease, and a severe diet may impair the patient's metabolic processes instead of improving them. ¶The mysterious poisons that appear in the bloodstream of severely burned patients and kill them several days after the original injury may not be so mysterious after all two Army medics told the Association of Military Surgeons. They...
...economy. Business inventories crept up $600 million during September to a record $78.7 billion, in spite of the efforts of retailers to trim their stocks. There were also scattered production cuts, and layoffs, and some price cuts to relieve overstocking in gasoline, shoes, television sets, automatic washers and refined sugar. But from the standpoint of the whole economy, such cutbacks were not large...
...white, but it was also true that no black boy liked the idea of being black. Brown skin was a satisfactory compromise . . . The best-looking girls in the village were those whose mothers had consorted with white men . . . One was known throughout the island-as the crystal sugar cake...