Word: hand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reader of that Publisher's Letter, Elliott Macrae, president of E. P. Dutton, thought that we should make a book of the recipes we had received. We thought so, too. Although there were about a thousand recipes on hand, we decided to get some more. A second request to women readers in the U.S. and overseas evoked another enthusiastic response-and 1,000 more favorite recipes. All 2,000 of them were turned over to Home Economist Florence Arfmann for sorting, testing, and the final selection of the 230 that now make up the recipe book...
...Tayloe Ross, who runs the U.S. Mint, Minnesota's Eugenie Anderson, new ambassador to Denmark-to celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer seem to be winning. It looks pretty good." After the Boston ice cream pie had been cleared away, the President rose again...
...power operations, head of the War Production Board. At 38, he was the youngest officer in the Cabinet, a hard-driving New Dealer who quickly mastered Interior's operations and spent at least half of his time in the field, brushing up on department problems at first hand...
...liear the Harvard Band. . ." Vag snickered. He had better things to do. He started to turn it off, but then stopped. He might as well hear the score. There was a loud caw from the radio at the kickoff. Vag paused for a moment, clutching the book in his hand, and jumped to his feet. He held the book at arm's length, released it, and kicked it in a neat line against the wall. Vag was in there now, and this was the one that counted...
...very doubtful, then that the Chinese will be content to be pawns of the Russians. On the other hand, the ideological link between the Soviets and the Chinese can't be underrated...