Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fame. Then, in succession, he expertly dethroned Transport King Antonio Díaz Lombardo, who had made $40 million as boss of the bus lines and head of Alemán's lucrative Social Security Department, and loosened the grip of Multimillionaire Aaron Saenz on Mexico's sugar industry. Pledged to lower food prices, the President also smashed the monopolistic plays of middlemen in corn, rice and beans by authorizing a government agency to buy and sell such commodities on an emergency basis. With food prices down 10%, Ruiz Cortines proclaimed last week that the first "batjl...
Bill Z's Treatment. Each morning for 60 days, before breakfast, Bill was given an injection of insulin, which cuts down the blood sugar. Bill sweated profusely and became increasingly drowsy. The doctors gradually increased the insulin dosage, but were careful to stop short of the point where Bill would have lapsed into coma. At one point, Bill had a stormy outburst, then quieted down and showed his first grudging signs of cooperating with his psychiatrist...
Altered Appearance. Shirley Kremen, using an alias, had rented the lonely four-room hideout in June. A tidy housekeeper, she kept a plentiful supply of canned goods, liquor and beer on hand, and $2,000 in sugar-bowl money. When she was arrested, she had just washed a man's white sweater and spread it neatly on a towel to dry. The men stuck close to the cabin, avoided the neighbors, whiled away the time with TV and table tennis. Thompson and Steinberg had gone to some pains to alter their appearances. Thompson, who had gained about...
...surplus headaches are in store for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson next year. Acreage controls could take nearly 34 million acres out of corn, cotton and wheat production, but only a few farmers can afford to let them lie idle. Many will plant other crops, such as flaxseed, soybeans and sugar beets, already in more than ample supply...
...urban millions still bought half their food overseas. Yet austerity, the hated catchword of seven lean years (1945-52), is all but disappearing. Britons once again are eating roasts (and carrots) for Sunday dinner. Tea was de-rationed last October; candy, eggs and cream followed this summer. Sugar will be freed next month, and after Aug. 29, bakers will be able to sell white bread for the first time since...