Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years he has been working hard on his UNESCO mural. Its imaginative images combine childlike delight with echoes of primitive Catalan signs and symbols. Once Miró destroyed one whole wall when it failed to please him, and began again. "Guessing the color of ceramic is like cooking a biscuit-you never know how it will come out," explained one expert ruefully. Miró's principal aim: "To make the murals harmonize with the architecture...
Gordon and Small went on to produce pilot films for such shows as Lassie, Charlie Chan, Tugboat Annie, The Halls of Ivy and Count of Monte Cristo. T.P.A. then sold the pilots, got such sponsors as National Biscuit, Campbell Soup and International Harvester to help pay for the production costs on the series. In 1957 Producer Small returned to making features on a full-time basis, sold his interest back to T.P.A...
...carry his punch in the way that cotton carries chloroform. His stories are saturated with the sights and sounds of suburban life. His characters show the identity cards of the hard-pressed middle class: unpaid bills, buttonless shirts, little scraps of paper that read, "oleomargarine, frozen spinach, Kleenex, dog biscuit . . ." They believe they are "outside the realm of God's infinite mercy," and yet their prayer is heartfelt: "Preserve me from word games and adulterers, from basset hounds and swimming pools and frozen canapes and Bloody Marys...
Yvonne, daughter of a Calais biscuit-maker, has helped the general get his meals on time (lunch at 1, dinner at 8:30), at week's end sneaked home with him to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where they attended church, walked together along familiar country roads...
Americans were buying more food than ever. Kroger Co. earnings hit a record $1.27, up from $1.14 on fewer shares a year ago. National Biscuit Co. expected slightly better earnings than last year, as did General Baking Co. Grand Union increased its dividend from 18? to 20? a quarter on the basis of record sales. And General Foods, buoyed up by the best first quarter in its history, broke into the elite $1 billion sales club for the first time in the fiscal year ending March...