Word: canteeners
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...Enter the Minister and his wife, right. He is carrying a large suitcase, an umbrella, and a canteen. She carries another, smaller suitcase covered with travel stickers, and has a huge purse slung from her shoulder. He wears a black, vested suit with Episcopalian collar; She is plainly and decently dressed, past middle age and, like her husband, obviously of tough pioneer stock. They both seem overheated and fatigued...
...They reach the bench and sit down heavily. He unstraps the canteen and passes...
Already vending machine operators are running more than 3,000 automated canteens for U.S. industrial firms, schools and colleges. For the customer (if not necessarily the eater) the deal is an attractive one; it offers a means of at least breaking even on employee or student meals. But the operators themselves have yet to find a way of making hot food vending pay. The reason: vending machine food remains fit to eat for only about four hours after it is cooked. Laments Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Chairman Frederick Schuster: "The amount of food you have to throw away...
A.R.A.'s rocketlike rise makes it a serious challenge to the once unchallenged monarch of the vending industry, Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Another fast comer is Interstate Vending Co. of Chicago, which has bought 25 companies in the past year and recently acquired New York's Brass Rail restaurant and catering chain. (A pioneer in preparing restaurant-quality dinners for vending, Brass Rail supplies machine-served meals to General Electric employees at G.E.'s New York home office.) Interstate's President Ronald Wolff, 31, has made himself one of vending's new millionaires...
...Amsterdam barber, Appel has had a career as turbulent as his paintings. When he did a mural for the canteen in Amsterdam's city hall, some diners threw their lunches at it.' Some years later, when he designed six stained-glass windows for a new church in the town of Zaandam, 300 parishioners refused to contribute to the building fund. In Paris, a city more used to the out-rageous in art, Appel decorated a restaurant in the UNESCO building. And in Britain, Sir Herbert Read solemnly declared that Appel has found the world "Van Gogh was seeking...