Word: caviare
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...farm situation, Benson bluntly admitted, certainly is not all Cadillacs and caviar. Since February 1951, the prices farmers get have dropped 64 points (from 313 to 249) on the Agriculture Department's index. Prices that farmers pay for goods they buy (including livestock feed) did not begin dropping until May 1952, and have dropped only 13 points. Most of the decline in farm prices occurred before the Eisenhower Administration took office, Benson said, but the farmer is still in the cost-price squeeze...
...would tell him that he was a greater economist than Britain's Lord Keynes, the man White envied most, White would preen himself. The Communists, too, learned that White could be flattered. Their technique was revealed when a baffled Washington carpenter named Harry White received a container of caviar, then a case of vodka, and then an engraved invitation to a social occasion at the Soviet embassy. Through a mistake in addresses, Carpenter White had received Harry Dexter White's flattering mail from the Soviet embassy...
...Vienna, where correspondents from the Russian news agency Tass have always steered clear of Western newsmen, Tass-men have started wining & dining U.S. reporters in nightclubs, sending them gifts of caviar and vodka...
...Caviar and champagne at the $35.28-a-plate Coronation Ball in London's Savoy Hotel revived two of President Eisenhower's four official U.S. representatives after the long ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Turned out in gold-braided full-dress uniform, General of the Army Omar Bradley launched into an enthusiastic off-beat rumba with Editor Fleur (Look) Cowles, whose diamond tiara was as grand as anything worn by a peeress...
...bricks out on to Main Street. Then he searched his twelve prisoners. Frederick Hamelin had $60 in his pocket, another $145 sewn neatly into his pillow. Clyde B. Hamblin had $143 hidden in his bedding. Hamblin's and Hamelin's cells also yielded up a hoard of caviar, shrimp and imported cheeses...