Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poor for actors & showmen, bookkeepers & cashiers, coal miners, editors & reporters, farm laborers, firemen, fishermen, lawyers & judges, longshoremen, musicians, policemen, railroad workers, stockbrokers, teamsters, telephone operators, commercial pilots, building tradesmen, fruit farmers, office clerks, stenographers, railroad porters, streetcar conductors...
...Beginning with a few choice blades at each meal, he gradually worked up to over five ounces of fodder a day, can now "fearlessly consume any type of meadow grass." He collects fresh mowings, washes them tenderly, sets them out in the sun to dry, then nibbles them with fruit and cheese, or tosses them up with dressing in a variety of tasty salads. Sample: grass mowings with "broken Dad's Cookie Biscuits and currants"; with equal quantities of rose petals; with uncooked oats. In the fall, he dries and stores his grass as hay. He never cheats...
This June morning we can still declare that coercive militarism in America bears no different stamp; from militarism in Germany, that it will fruit in no more lasting security or real democracy than in the past. But next September we may well be Americanized. The determined efforts of patriotic men in influential positions, the old hates, and the fallacies we thought we understood after the first World War will have swung public opinion over A new enthusiasm and healthy faith in the good old American ideals of democracy will have united the discordant elements, and youth will be freed...
...securities back from the public-in many cases, at handsome profits under liquidating values and redemption prices. Biggest corporation to announce that it would do this was the $67,200,000 Lehman Corp., whose common closed the week at 18¼. Among others doing it: Paramount Pictures, United Fruit...
...Raklios eating houses that dotted the Loop and nearby business districts in the early '30s. Almost as familiar was the legend of their bush-browed proprietor John Raklios. He had hit the Loop in 1901, fresh from Greece with $10 in his pocket, had parlayed a basket of fruit into a sidewalk fruit stand, then switched his bet to popular-priced restaurants. In 1928, his top year, his chain did a gross business of $3,600,000, and talkative John Raklios, with a classic "stromberry" accent, counted himself a millionaire, with a $65,000 mansion on Sheridan Road...