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...smoke from big black cigars supercharged the sticky heat of the basement cafeteria in Chicago's Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A. A well-dressed, pipe-smoking Negro rose to address the third annual conference of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association. His 75 listeners, full of fried chicken and Pepsi-Cola, were still wrought up about the issue of their press and their race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Negro Publishers | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...First essential for a company cafeteria is a well-trained dietitian. ("Very few" plants employ them.) Efficiency experts can determine the amounts of money spent in the cafeteria by each employe who lunches there; the dietitian, through shrewd marketing, can plan well-balanced menus within the price range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins in the Vittles | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...already has $20,000,000 in Government orders, mostly for aircraft starter assemblies. All employes are called "associates." They punch no time clocks, get monthly bonuses averaging $30, free coffee, jazz music four hours daily, free hamburgers every Wednesday, will soon get free grub from a company cafeteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Walter and Olive Ann | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...only alternative is the self-service plan suggested last year and turned down cold. Self-service would mean that a student eating in the houses would pick up his own food from a counter and carry it back to his table. It is not cafeteria style, for there would be no more choice of food than at present. It only means the abolition of the present system of waitresses and what paid busboys there would be might be student workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Forward IV | 12/12/1941 | See Source »

...University Commons, Yale Freshman dining hall which formerly operated on a basis similar to that of the Harvard Union, has been returned to a cafeteria, self-service system, and undergraduate bus boys and waiters, formerly hired by the Commons, are now being employed in Yale's ten residential colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE ALTERS DINING HALL ARRANGEMENT | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

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