Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prices in Canada were like the weather-everybody talked about them, nobody did anything. But in the Vancouver Island sawmill town of Chemainus (pop. 1,753), the youngsters put their heads together. Instead of candy bars (up to 8? since the April 2 decontrol) they agreed to buy ice cream cones, which were still a nickel. Youngsters from eight to 18 picketed stores. "Don't be a sucker-don't buy eight-cent bars," their signs read. "Let the suckers pay eight cents...
...thirds of Chicago's drinking water supply is nothing but chlorinated (unfiltered) water from Lake Michigan, which is also used for sewage disposal. The city law requiring pasteurization of ice cream and frozen desserts, the investigators found, is laxly enforced. Private scavengers still collect about one-third of the city's refuse and deposit it in four fly-ridden, ratinfested, unregulated dumps...
...business, War Assets Administration had a whopping first quarter. WAA sold surplus goods with a face value of $2.3 billion for $668,314,000, about 30? on the dollar. But unlike other merchandising organizations, WAA has found that its market is fast disappearing. It has already skimmed the cream. Last week WAA Boss Robert McGowan Little-John reported that WAA still has $13 billion of unsold surpluses on hand. But he did not think much of this could be sold. His chances of selling much of what's left seem so poor that he plans to ask Congress...
...World of Harding, Coolidge, and their own disconsolate selves. Says Samuel Putnam, who went to Paris in 1926 to translate the works of Rabelais, and stayed seven years, writing sometimes as art correspondent for New York newspapers: ". . . It was perhaps the first and only time . . . that the intellectual cream of a young generation had deliberately . . . gone into exile...
Whether they were cream or evaporated milk, Author Putnam is the first ex-expatriate to bottle them all together. Putnam is no more successful than most other Parisophiles in explaining just what it was that made his wife burst into tears on her first glimpse of the Tuileries, or that mists the eyes of those who merely recall the image of a Parisian pissoir. But he does show the variety of attractions that Paris offered to youthful intellectuals in the years following World...