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...financial powers; its millions on deposit in London are a principal prop for the hard-pressed British pound. While his people enjoyed free education, medical care and telephone service plus air-conditioned homes for as little as $1.40 a month, Abdullah lived in a mud-walled house, dressed and ate simply. On his deathbed, too weak to speak, he gestured for a writing pad and scrawled his last wish in shaky Arabic: "Carry on in the most enlightened...
...ground, merely getting fed and bedded down were the paramount problems. At B. Altman's department store, 500 late shoppers and employees dined on Russian caviar, specially blended coffee and other exotics from the imported-delicacies department. Few others ate that well. At Bloomingdale's, men and women slept in the home-furnishings and medical departments. Restaurants and bars did a booming business?though many rely on electricity to make their ice, pump their water, cook their food, wash the dishes, count the receipts, and of course light the premises...
...Chairman of the Finance Committee, he opposed the spending plans of five Presidents, prepared his own budget to show how expenditures could be brought back in line with revenues. Across the Potomac, his Democratic squirearchy firmly ruled the Old Dominion, where Byrd started his career in the state sen ate 50 years ago this month...
This year, the Dudley House dining hall hired a new manager, who didn't understand the difference between the two "interhouse." He thought that the girls who ate lunch at Dudley House were part of the reciprocal "interhouse," and only had them sign the interhouse sheet for meals. Soon the word spread about this profitable confusion...
Bogged Down. Ocean Spray grew bigger than any other cranberry cooperative because Founder Marcus Urann, figuring that housewives were tired of stewing fresh cranberries, decided to can some cranberry sauce. Housewives ate it up. Even so, cranberries sold mostly around holidays, and sales grew no faster than the population. The industry suffered its greatest setback in 1959, when the Government seized a few cranberries sprayed with aminotriazole weed killer and announced that cranberries so contaminated might cause cancer. That Thanksgiving and Christmas, and in the months that followed, the public reluctance to buy cranberries almost ruined the industry...