Word: dessert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beverages 874 (2) Main Orders 131 (3) Ice Cream Substitutions 169 (4) Dessert Seconds 74 2. Increase in board rate, unlimited seconds, substitutions...
Speed was the keynote. The delegates gathered at a luncheon. They churned into six kinds of meat, slushed through bowls of caviar, demolished huge mounds of cheese and butter, knocked down vodka, port and Madeira, wolfed dessert. Then, just in case they might feel sluggish, they drank Russian cocktails...
Half of them picked dessert, over soup, meat and vegetables. Twenty-eight percent favored going to war immediately with Germany. (In the last Gallup poll, only 24% of grownups favored such action.) Although 71% admitted that they got spanked, 82% deposed that they were afraid of neither father nor mother. Most would rather ride in an airplane than in a car, train or bus. Cartoons, comedies, mystery and adventure placed high in their movie tastes...
...railroad crossing outside Los Angeles. After 15 minutes of his expert repair work the other car limped off under its own power. Eleanor Roosevelt took a wrong turn in Bangor, Me., drove 88 unfamiliar miles out of her way, turned up at a dinner party just in time for dessert. Comedian Joe Cook sold his fabulous Sleepless Hollow, trick estate at Lake Hopatcong, N.J., complete with squirting telephones, rubber-legged chairs, golf-ball tree, a nine-hole golf course which has a hole-in-one hole. Billy Conn, the almost-champ, arrived in Hollywood with his new bride to start...
...construction, was launching a vessel a week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable Cramp yards in Philadelphia reopened with a $106,380,000 Navy order; eight Navy, 23 private yards worked at top speed. Last week, for dessert, the British attempted to offset their shipping losses by placing a $100,000,000 order for 60 10,000-ton (dead weight) freighters in the U. S. For this, the largest single merchant-ship order ever placed, Todd Shipyards started building two new yards, one in California, one in Maine...