Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further consequence of this thorough community co-operation is frequently the assumption of a powerful role by the Parent-Teacher Associations associated with the school system. Principals have been known to cower in fear of the ladies who exert influence through cake sales and bridge parties, and in schools with wealthy PTA's, a great many school functions, frequently including academic ones, become complacently dependent upon these women...
...rocket fuel, which develops 130,000 lbs. of thrust. In three seconds the F-100D is 400 to 500 ft. up and flying at 275 m.p.h. North American's Test Pilot Al Blackburn says the jolt is not bad at all. "It's a piece of cake," he says...
...Force, whose chronic worry is that it may lose some of its jet runways through enemy action or political upsets, hopes to cut bigger pieces of the same cake. Some of its takeoff experts believe that B58 intermediate bombers (weight: 150,000 lbs.) and even enormous B-52 heavy bombers (weight: over 400,000 lbs.) can be blasted off trailers. If this proves true, bombers can be dispersed so widely on their trailers that even a heavy surprise attack will not destroy them...
...modest. Hungry Americans are well acquainted with the company's pantry of 235 branded products, including the nation's best-selling coffee, Maxwell House; its biggest-selling frozen foods, Birds Eye; such old staples as Baker's cooking chocolate, Jell-O and Swans Down cake flour; and its top-selling dog meal, Gaines. General Foods' products go from breakfast (Post's cereals) to warm nightcaps (Postum, Sanka), also wash the pots and pans that its foods are cooked in (S.O.S. Scouring Pads...
When they get there they are buying more and more foods with built-in maid service. This year housewives will buy about $350 million worth of General Foods products that were barely known or not even on the market 15 years ago, e.g., soluble coffee, frozen juices, cake mixes. "There was a 25% population increase from 1940 to 1955, but food sales rose 60% in terms of constant dollars," says Mortimer. "Americans are not eating more, but they are eating better...