Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is far too late; babies under his care have a spoon of thin oatmeal or barley when they are but two days old. At ten days vegetables are added; at 14 days, strained meats; at 17 days, strained fruits; at weekly intervals thereafter, orange juice, eggs, soups, mashed banana, custard puddings and "crisp bacon" (though the bacon has to be mashed with a fork...
...from big landlords under the 1952 land-reform program has been returned and the peasant occupants dispossessed. Trade unions, smashed in the revolution, have been allowed only a slight comeback. A dozen police organizations use third-degree methods with as much gusto as the Communists ever did. Old-fashioned banana-republic corruption taints the government clear...
Married. Audrey Meadows, 31, red-haired stage actress (Top Banana), long-suffering TV wife of Comedian Jackie ("The Honeymooners") Gleason; and Randolph Rouse, 37, Washington realtor; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...Owns or charters 73% of all banana-carrying ships controlled by banana importers...
...Imported 63% of the bananas brought into the U.S. from 1935 to 1953, except for three banana-short war years, when Unifruit's ships were in military service...