Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wednesday, September 28, there was published in this column an editorial entitled "Food for Thought". We commented on a recent report by the State Commission, quoted in the New York papers of September 27, to the effect that armchair lunch-rooms were making gross profits of over 200 per cent. It was a supposedly humorous editorial, intended to "enliven the column...
...comes a report from the State Commission on necessaries of life which shows that "average gross profits of more than 200 percent" have been made by armchair lunchrooms in this state. Evidently in food for body there is food for thought. It is disquieting to suggest that "one egg" at the Waldorf, "combination supper" at the Georgian, or the "double-O" at Jimmie's cost but a fraction of what we pay for them--we can hardly have a lower opinion of their intrinsic worth than...