Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAMB CHOP. In Los Angeles, a beer ad urged: DON'T GO TO WAIST DRINK REGAL PALE. In New York. Minneapolis and five other cities, Stouffer's restaurants offered special low-calorie lunches; the Pennsylvania Railroad had a 470-calorie "Streamliner" on its dining-car menus. Domino Sugar asked a "diet-conscious public to recognize that three teaspoons of sugar actually contain fewer calories than half a grapefruit . . . or an apple ... or even three small tomatoes...
...Magic Words. For years some food companies have made salt-and sugar-free products for diabetics and other special dieters. But the reducing craze has become so widespread that more than 80 canners now turn out some 60 different low-calorie foods, ranging from applesauce and peanut butter to French dressing and puddings. About 80% of U.S. supermarkets have added dietetic departments featuring low-calorie foods. Their sales total some $25 million a year, and within a decade, the industry thinks, volume should hit $140 million. Said one Seattle chain-store manager last week: "All you have...
...Misri Effendis, the long-suffering John Does of Egypt, there were some who framed the likeness of President Naguib in their mud homes by the Nile, or sought to touch his clothes as he passed by. There were others more concerned with the fact that loaves were smaller, sugar more costly and wages no higher than they were when the President came to power a year ago. When Naguib gave 853 lucky fellahin the deeds to some of the rich man's land, the new landowners were gleeful and gay for the photographers (who are always on hand...
...Sugar & Salt. Charlie's wife came down with pneumonia. For a while the Steens . owed $300 in grocery bills, had no money to buy milk for their ten-week-old baby; they fed him weakly sugared tea instead. Winter evenings, Steen foraged for coal at a nearby railroad. Then, when things looked blackest, Bad Luck Charlie's luck began to turn...
Isabel's humanitarian act, bitterly opposed by conservative coffee and sugar planters, soon brought on a disastrous economic crisis. Crops rotted in the fields as freed slaves abandoned the fazendas. Within a year the crowded cities faced famine, and the army deposed the royal family. Princess Isabel died at her husband's chateau in France...