Word: foods
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...proposed that sympathizers buy supermarkets in the major Bolivian cities to insure the guerrillas a source of food and profit. Wrote Che: "A truck rolling anywhere along the desolate Bolivian roads could unload five or ten metric tons of supplies for a guerrilla column without arousing the slightest suspicion...
Surrounded by Italian news hens in Rome last week, Pat Nixon almost got her pasta caught in some really hot water. Italian food was her favorite, she said, and she made good spaghetti. "How long do you cook it?" asked a reporter. "A long time," said the First Lady. Noting the black looks at the thought of a White House full of pasty pasta, Pat made a remarkable recovery. "I cook my meat sauce a long time-I simmer it," she explained. "But the spaghetti: eight minutes." Smiles. Al dente...
...apple juice from a handcrafted earthenware jug. Glazed with a compound containing a high lead content, the jug poisoned the apple juice at a prodigious rate. Within three hours, juice stored in the jug had a lead content of 157 parts per million. The maximum allowed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is only...
PRICE RISES will slow, though not to the 2.4% annual rate shown by the August consumer price index, which was an aberration caused largely by a drop in food prices. In addition, Robert Nathan points out, utilities are encountering steep rises in interest costs as they replace old bond issues with new borrowings at today's high charges. They are petitioning regulators for rate increases...
Both airlines are among the pleasantest to fly on-expert pilots, comely stewardesses, gourmet food-but the similarity ends there. Austrian, which is 98% state-owned, has been a losing investment during most of its 13 years of existence and has dropped a total of $40 million. It provides a daily service to New York by leasing half of the cabin of an aircraft flown by Belgium's Sabena. By contrast, Swissair is 70% privately owned, flies to 56 countries and has not lost money since 1949. Last year it earned...