Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their feet in front doors until they had raised $300,000. Local 18 of the United Auto Workers (C.I.O.), mostly unemployed, sold $87,000 worth of bonds...
When it is going at full speed, the modern Crimson sports the informal slogan: "Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily," and puts itself in the general classification of newspaper. The Magenta was not only a bi-weekly, but was a 16-page competitor with the Advocate in "notes and comments," short essays, and sports coverage...
...same to-your-door-before-breakfast delivery, the business editors have raised the price of a single copy from an early three cents to the present five, while the yearly rate has paralleled the times in rising to $7.50. Advertising was most lush in the first three decades of the century, with tremendous beer ads in the "Teens (said to have been taken out in trade) and ads for yachts and $3000 automobiles in the Twenties. Crimson budgets were figured in the forty thousands...
Hathaway said that rooms would be rented to students by the hotels on terms suggested by the University--$65 per month rent maximum plus, preferably, a two-meal rate of $1.20 a day, breakfast and supper. One hotel has already been scratched from the list of possibilities because of food prices higher than the University maximum...
...this page in the early hours of this morning. CRIMSON editors who wistfully watched the last issue roll off on May 27, 1943 will celebrate along with undergraduates past and and present, who have been waiting for the student body to express itself more completely through "Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily...