American Decades
What Do We Eat
Study, Graphs
By: Janet Murray and Ennis Blake
Date: 1959
Source: Murray, Janet, and Ennis Blake. What Do We Eat? Food: The Yearbook of Agriculture, 1959. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1959, 609–619.
About the Authors: Janet Murray conducted research on food consumption at Stanford University's Food Research Institute and at the University of Chicago. She served as chief of the Survey Statistics Staff in the Household Economics Research Division of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Ennis Blake was a food economist in the Household Economics Research Division of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She conducted food surveys for the ARS, including the 1955 Household Food Consumption Survey.
Introduction
During the twentieth century, American scientists and...
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1950's Medicine and Health Primary Sources
- "The Development of Vaccines Against Yellow Fever"
- "The Drugs of Microbial Origin"
- "Studies in Human Subjects on Active Immunization against Poliomyelitis"
- Heart-Lung Machine
- "Mother! Your Child's Cough at Night May Be the First Sign of Chest Cold or Asian Flu"
- "Recommended Daily Dietary Allowances, Revised 1958"
- "Statistics of Health"
- What Do We Eat
- "Private Expenditures for Medical Care and for Voluntary Health Insurance: 1950 to 1958"
- "Heart Attack"
- "New Duties, New Faces"
- "John F. Nash, Jr.—Autobiography"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
