Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real Russian nationalist. Good music is Tschaikowsky, Moussorgsky and the "Mighty Band" school. Compared to the old Russian opera and ballet, the contemporary attempts are flimsy. When a tutee invited "Karpy" to a big club dinner, he enjoyed himself immensely--till the salad course appeared. It was caviar--served in bowls! The quantity of the rare dish never fazed him, but to eat caviar as a salad course was verging on the barbaric. Mores Americanos curdled his Russian taste on one other occasion, when his son started reading such magazines as Ranch Romances, The Shadow and Terror Tales. The Professor...
...does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails in aspic and goose livers. In addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained with out loss of a single food...
Feature of Stokowski's return was the first performance outside Russia of the sixth and latest symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, at 34 the No. 1 Soviet composer. The Philadelphia Orchestra got first crack at No. 6 as it might have arranged for a ton of caviar: by negotiating with Amtorg Trading Corp., paying a fee so stiff (amount kept secret) that it had to be specially approved by the Philadelphia Orchestra directors...
...disappointed at the news from Greece (see p. 24). President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala was 62 and successful (see p. 37). In Moscow, Russia celebrated the 23rd anniversary of its Revolution with a military demonstration and professions of peace, while in Washington tiny Ambassador Constantine Alexandrovich Oumansky served caviar to U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and to Allied and Axis diplomats. The second anniversary of great Kamal Atatürk's death was commemorated in Turkey, while Turkey's fate was discussed in Berlin . Few nations bothered to mark the 22nd anniversary of the World...
...soared, are 50% above what the industry itself regards as normal. Contract prices on domestic kraft pulp have jumped from $25 a ton to $61 ; bleached No. 1 book sulfite pulp, at $72.50, is 45% above August 1939. For integrated paper companies with their own pulp supply, this is caviar. International Paper & Power earned $3.61 a common share in six months ended June 30 as against a deficit of $1.22 last year. But for the nonintegrated units ("converters," who buy their pulp), high pulp prices mean a tight squeeze. One integrated paperboard producer recently found he could sell unbleached kraft...