Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moppets at Work. Department stores and merchandising chains pledged no price lifts on present stocks. Organized buyers' strikes threatened in several cities, but failed to develop. But an unorganized one did, in miniature. In Phoenix, Ariz. tricycling vendors boosted their price of ice cream sticks by a penny. Result: moppets refused to buy. By the third day the price was back to a nickel...
...make the blowout a success, Harriman and Assistant Paul ("Piggy") Warburg had worked overtime bullying caterers and procuring gin, bourbon and some synthetic fruit juices. There was no ice or Scotch to be had. "I thought Americans always had ice and Scotch," muttered a few disgruntled Britons, but for others the plebeian spirits did well enough. A few drunks were soon reeling here & there. The dignified staggers of U.S. junior officers drew many a disparaging glance and word from moralizing chauffeurs clustered at the entrance. Only the waiters and bartenders seemed unhappy. As the afternoon wore on they grew progressively...
...that Somoza had lost his ability to out-trick the slow-witted opposition. He had ample reason to hang on. Even if the Government was broke, Somoza enterprises were booming. Public-works employes kept up the dictator's cattle ranches. The National Railway had just built him an ice plant. His latest haul: an $85,000 profit on surplus goods from the U.S. Navy's [former] Corinto base...
...swung past Les MacMitchell, king of U.S. milers. At the end, MacMitchell was 30 yards behind. Strand's time, after his slow start, and on a slow track was 3:54.5 (equivalent to a 4:12 mile). Mission completed, Strand went looking for some shade and some ice cream...
...filled balloons soared overhead and vendors shouted an encouraging "Ice cream bars--Still OPA ceiling," as thousands of Cantabrigians lined Massachusetts Ave, and Garden St. to cheer the marching columns. Highlight of the parade was the appearance of the U.S. Army band. The rest of the procession consisted of military and naval units, veterans organizations, floats, ponderous with symbolism, petite and hippy drum majorettes, and sweating, gaily-uniformed bands...