Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blocks away. In the front hall is the familiar motto: "Home is where the heart is." Every room has some souvenir of McKay's life: a seal tusk, Eugene Peavine's trophies, family photos. Downstairs, in the basement playroom, hang Mabel McKay's blue ribbons (for cake), McKay's show ribbons (for Gene) and silly signs ("Danger-Hangover Under Construction...
...another program, a commercial for a cake mix neglected to talk about the product, told viewers instead about how tough things were in the kitchen before cake mixes were invented. As a result, lots of housewives bought cake mixes, but not the advertiser's brand...
...French meal. When they had finished, some heroes of the great battle came back to the galleys with hands outstretched, pleading for more. One legionnaire carefully stored his bread crumbs in a cellophane bag, and a Frenchman held up a loaf and cried: "Bread! To me, messieurs, this is cake...
...Cake Eaters. Was there anything wrong with this? Builder Gross did not think so. Neither did another builder, Bertram Bonner of Richmond, who had made $1,000,000 in windfall profits. He pointed out that FHA regulations had been drawn to give builders a liberal incentive, and Congressmen had been well aware at the time that costs might be less than the mortgages. Said Bonner: "I find it a source of disappointment that our acts are criticized instead of praised...
...mortgages, there is no doubt that they would have had no place to live-or paid much more in rent-if the shortage had not been alleviated. And the FHA made money on its mortgage guarantees. In short, it looked as if Congress, now that it had its cake, wanted to eat the builders who had made...