Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem silly to take the trouble to find out what the Zulu word for "home" is (we haven't found it yet); what the late President Calvin Coolidge's "cure" for seasickness was (if he had one); who "actually" was the first person to make ice cream (the evidence is inconclusive); how German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel had his flat feet fixed (he didn't). But the temptation to try to find the correct answer is irresistible-and the result goes into TIME'S morgue for the future use, or edification, of TIME'S editors...
...beach was a low, thick-walled building-newly painted a bright yellow, bordered with flower boxes and surmounted by an elegant sign, A la Marquise de Sėvigné (after a famous chain of Paris teashops). Few of the English and French children who bought candy and ice cream there on Bastille Day knew that the building had been a Nazi pillbox...
Mozart & Chamois. Most of the 15,000 U.S. occupation troops in Austria were boys between 18 and 22. Weaned on ice cream sodas, they had known little except the good life of high-school dances and corner drugstores. The U.S. Army helped to transplant much of that life to Austria. It set up replicas of U.S. drugstores where G.I.s could take their Austrian girls for a soda (daily ice-cream consumption of the U.S. Army & friends in Vienna now runs to 60,000 scoops...
...have been reported since Tuesday: Liggett's frappes, up to $.25 milkshakes, up to $.20 Mike's Club frappes, up to $.20 Bella Vista Restaurant spaghetti dinner, from $1 to $1.10 (Similar increases on other items) Hazen's grilled cheese sandwich, $.15 to $.20 College Drug Store all ice cream items...
...continue to welcome any reports of stores which conspicuously hold back on their prices. Today's list of price complaints has been reprinted as received. The Oyster Shell (restaurant) all meat dishes up $.05 to $.10 Woolworth 5-and 10 shoe trees from $.39 to $.49 Fiske's ice cream, with dinner, $.10 to $.15 Harvard Variety Store $.05 rise on ice cream cones Young Lee's Restaurant all dinners up about 30 percent...