Word: canteens
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...Embassy in China now does business at three stands. The fancy establishment is at Peking, the working one at Chungking, the routine one at Shanghai. When the Embassy set up offices in Chungking last year, it was housed on the top floor of a U. S. Navy canteen, and the staff had to use packing cases for desks and sit on bamboo chairs...
...London: "If she is as interested in Government Spain as in Franco Spain, why didn't she include Government Spain in her tour?" Admitting that she was receiving hundreds of letters from irate Leftists, the conservative Prime Minister's sister-in-law explained unperturbed, "In our Barcelona canteen we are feeding 4,000 people every day. Our fund is expending 312 pounds ($1,500) per month on each side in Spain...
Automatic Canteen Co. of America distributes candy, nuts and gum through vending machines which its 1,000 employes must call canteens because their president, Nathaniel Leverone, secretary of Chicago's Crime Commission, thinks vending machine sounds too much like slot machine. Of the 200,000 canteens in 44 States, about 98% are in factories. During the nine years his company has been going, President Leverone has noticed that canteen sales accurately reflect factory employment. Last fall, when the automobile plants began shutting down, canteen sales in Detroit fell from top of the list to the bottom. Once President Leverone...
...Echo Here, a clearing in a German pine forest at which a single automobile has stopped. A bandy-legged Nazi with whip dangling from his wrist, canteen and dirk at his belt, is driving a file of political prisoners off to political execution...
...houses, so we consulted God." The Groupers had 20 caddies carry tables for nothing from the town hall to the mess tent. "Guid ance," said Grouper Harriman. "That's what made me walk on the golf course just at that moment." The man in charge of the camp canteen, one James Mariano who claimed he had been a "drunk, pick pocket and strong-arm man," told an Assembly audience that "the canteen is directed by the Holy Spirit. We have no cashier. You simply go in and take what you want and pay for it and be God-guided...