Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find out. Not even delivery boys got past the front gate. What went on inside the two houses, the annex, in the fine garden, the orchard, swimming pool and volleyball field? The windows were curtained; a seemingly endless stream of strangers went to and fro; and they ate enough food for a platoon. Townfolk talked about smugglers, maybe even revolutionaries...
Chosen by the U.S.'s Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, the U.S. students are guests of the Russian government, receive a handsome 1,500-ruble ($375) monthly allowance-twice the subsidy Russia gives its own graduate students. Rent costs them one ruble a day, and food is sold at student rates. Most of the men, ranging in age from 22 to 37, are married, but at week's end only 23-year-old Harvard Political Science Student Jeremy Azrael had managed to take his wife. Shy, smiling Gabrielle Azrael says she has no pretensions to a Ph.D...
...toughest years since the icebox became a refrigerator, the appliance industry is making a strong comeback. The turnabout started in June, and in the last several weeks all burners have been on. Last week the National Electrical Manufacturers Association reported that August sales of refrigerators, freezers, water heaters and food disposers topped August a year ago. In Chicago, August sales of air conditioners were up 45%, freezers 54%, electric ranges...
...Park at Louisville, where its major appliances are made, has exceeded last year's sales every month for the last four months, expects its total 1958 sales to top 1957's. ¶Westinghouse in June, July and August increased its sales of refrigerators, freezers, electric ranges and food disposers by 5% over last year. Westinghouse invested $16 million this year to tool a new line of major appliances...
...nothing more than a four-year-old child with fur," burbled an adman pursuing a dog-food account. This kind of talk might offend some old-fashioned parents, but the pitchman knew on which side his yummy was sugared. In ten years of more money and suburban living, U.S. dogs have increased 35% to 26 million; more than 40% of U.S. homes have one or more. U.S. consumers now spend more for dog food than baby food. In 1948 they bought less than i billion Ibs.; last year they spent $350 million for 2.1 billion Ibs. In the next five...