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Meatless. In Washington, the War Food Administration made out its usual paychecks to Employes Mary Bean, George Fruit, Maybert Corn, Samuel G. Salmon, Esther Olive, William Meal and Fairfax Oyster. Mr. Oyster is an expert on peanuts...
...board, which dourly foureffed America's big noise of the year, a loved-up character known as Frank Sinatra to most and Oooooofrankie to a select few who poured over $6,000 in the till of the R.K.O. Boston last week when crooner Sinatra came to sample of the bean...
...phone jangled in the Pennsylvania farmhouse at 2 a.m. A sleepy man answered it, snapped wide awake. The Navy needed more bean soup. Soon, from a nearby factory, a truck loaded with big black cans rolled out, sped to the Philadelphia airport. The cans were hustled into a plane, flown to San Francisco, then on to Pearl Harbor. There they were dumped into a waiting boat. It chuffed out to sea, met a ship that had been burning for three days. The cans were tossed to the exhausted crew. Quickly, the bean soup in the big black cans snuffed...
Since World War II began, such emergencies have become routine for Philadelphia's National Foam System, Inc. Its stocky, energetic president, Fisher Longstreth Boyd, 57, rolls out of bed in the bleaker hours like any fireman to dispatch his fire-fighting foam, which the Navy calls "bean soup," to fight fires around the globe...
Promptly, National Foam broke ground for a new plant outside Philadelphia, turned out its first batch of bean soup seven weeks later. The Navy piled on orders. It put a generous supply aboard its fighting ships and stockpiled it all over the world. In one Pacific sea fight 118 warship fires were reportedly snuffed out by foam. And Foam's gross fizzed up from less than $500,000 into $6.000,000 this year...