Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Hot Pots. Arthur Christiansen - grandson of a Danish grocer and son of a Liverpool shipwright - started newspapering by covering parish council meetings, funerals and hot pot suppers for the Wallasey (Cheshire) Chronicle. By 1929 he was assistant editor of the Sunday Express. In that job he distinguished himself the night the British dirigible R-101 crashed in France in 1930. He leaped from his bed at 2 a.m., sped to his office in pajamas, remade his paper, scooped all England...
...Dixie's boss is bespectacled, pipe-smoking Raymond Erastus Hart, 47. Smart Mr. Hart learned the grocery business while traveling about Michigan opening new stores for giant Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. He also learned that the way of the small town independent grocer is hard, and decided to stay out until he had a saving trick up his sleeve. Last February, he cannily foresaw the strict rationing ahead, and guessed that coupon-confused housewives would give a rib-cracking welcome to an old-fashioned grocery store, where there was no such vexing thing as "points...
Raymond Hart went to Ypsilanti and while studying the situation there (35 stores), he worked at Willow Run for two months. When rationing of canned goods and other foods turned many a small grocer into a coupon-counting insomniac, he launched his pointless store. He shrewdly stocked an 18-by-60-ft. store with hundreds of unrationed items, included "something almost as good" for all rationed foods. For butter and oleomargarine he had apple butter, honey and tomato preserves; for meat, chicken and turkey a la king (in glass jars), fish flakes, packaged spaghetti with cheese and tomato sauce; dehydrated...
...French conquistador's beginnings were humble. He was born into a bourgeois family the year before Napoleon invaded Russia. Later young Bazaine flunked his exams for Paris' Ecole Polytechnique and, after an unsuccessful career as a grocer's boy, enlisted as a private. In a little more than a year he was a sergeant and transferred eagerly to the newly formed Foreign Legion...
...plan is to send the American letters to Russians with similar interests - a gro cer's letter to a grocer, a mechanic's to his Soviet counterpart, and so on. Brief mention of the campaign in the Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife brought thousands of cheerful notes from U.S. farmers' wives, letters full of feeling for the good earth, and of high regard for Russian peasants...