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Bacon and eggs, toast, waffles, pancakes have their devotees, but the most popular American breakfast is cold cereal with milk. So, at least, say cereal makers, and they have some figures to back up their claim. From 1967 through 1972, cereal sales hardly grew at all, but since then they have been rising rapidly-by 13% in 1973, 8% in 1974 and nearly 6% last year, to 1.8 billion lbs. In those three years, dollar sales have risen from $1.1 billion to $1.7 billion, and per capita consumption of cereal has expanded almost a third, from about...
...many Yankee creature comforts. A special food store for foreigners stocked many American and European goods that were not otherwise available, but the Schecters often had to make do with Soviet substitutes. At one point in the book, Leona Schecter mentions how her children fell asleep clutching American cereal boxes, a symbol of the culture they had left behind. "Well, I didn't," Steven Schecter confides, laughing...
...proposal which would provide full breakfasts at only five Houses and breakfasts of toast, milk, juice, and cereal at the other eight, would save approximately $11 of student fees in 1976 and $18 the year after that. Gross said the savings would be reflected as a "lesser increase" in board fees next year...
...proposed plan, which would provide continental breakfasts of toast, milk, juice, and cereal in the Houses not serving full breakfasts, would save each student an average of $10 next year. The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life is scheduled to vote on the plan this Wednesday...
...such notorious criminals as John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, and "Pretty Boy" Floyd. When operatives cornered George "Machine Gun" Kelly at his Memphis hideout in 1933, Kelly said he surrendered rather than be killed by "G-men," a sobriquet that has adhered to agents in movies and on cereal box tops through the years. In the '30s Hoover was portrayed as a dedicated, hard-working loner who approved wiretaps only in matters of life and death. Hoover's picture was again on the cover of TIME in August of 1949, when the nation was concerned with internal security...