Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This fruit fly's paradise is as unnecessary as it is unpleasant. In the Houses trash is not emptied on a large metal receptacle for the benefit of all on-lookers, but the trays are piled up, carried to the kitchen, and emptied there in private by the help. An alternate to this system would be to provide one exit for all Union diners, who would dump their trays on a table separated by a screen from incoming lines. This could be done by having the line coming in through the Quincy Street entrance go along the food tables...
Saskatchewan's Socialist government achieved a tax reduction this week. It eliminated the 2% sales tax (levied for educational purposes) on groceries, fruit, vegetables, soft drinks, candies, restaurant meals. The tax will still apply to such luxuries as whiskey and beer. The reason for the reduction: revenue from other sources (liquor sales, farm income...
...Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877's First Lady, who refused to serve alcoholic beverages in the White House, served a stickless fruit punch instead...
...milk, class-conscious housewives were somewhat embarrassed. Today the van's super service and Baron Digby's affable, businesslike manner have ended all that. Not only does he supply rich milk (at the regulation fivepence a pint), but the van is loaded with vegetables, flowers and fresh fruit, grown on Lord Digby's larger estate at Minterne, a mile away...
...there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord or no lord. They be fine people, the Digbys, got no swank with them either, friendly as you please. And there's no doubt about it," adds Mrs. Shuttle, "he could sell that fruit at twice the price. I bought a peach from him for sixpence that would have cost me one and six in Dorchester...