Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cauca River rises in the mountains of southern Colombia, foams furiously down their steep slopes, then runs placidly northward through a balmy (average temperature 78°), verdant valley. The Cauca Valley, twelve miles wide and 125 miles long, is the country's most bounteous food producer-bananas, sugar, potatoes, coffee, rice, beef, milk. Its center is the warmhearted city of Cali, whose 500.000 inhabitants manage to combine plenty of industrial zip (in tires, leather, drugs, textiles) with a pleasant, semitropical way of life that still reserves the time from noon to 2:30 for lunch and siesta...
...more diabetics, often disappointed in their hopes for a pill to free them from insulin injections, heard good news last week. Doctors in 50 medical centers are trying out two drugs developed in Germany, and first reports are that they may succeed in regulating the blood sugar in about 80% of diabetes victims-mostly adults with a relatively mild and stable form of the disease...
Jones urged educators to stop trying to "sugar coat" the humanities as the humane person would not be the product of a "milk and water version of the subject...
...Grace Chemical Co., Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. Division), which in 1955 accounted for 45% of Grace's total income v. only 3% in 1952. Another $30 million will go to the Grace Line, the remainder principally to paper enterprises in South America, where Grace also has ventures in sugar, paint, textiles, light bulbs and rum bottling...
...individual who accepts money to influence congressional legislation) to register and report his expenses. All told, last year registered lobbyists spent upwards of $4,000,000, with the Transportation Association of America running up the biggest bill ($227,000) for 1955's first six months. Cuba's sugar industry has the biggest staff-23 registered lobbyists...