Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walled, orange-tiled units of the chain have sprung up along main highways from Maine to Florida. Last week, tall, hefty Howard Johnson announced plans to widen out. Already under construction (near Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati) were the first of 200 new branches that will carry his name, his ice cream (28 flavors) and his own brand of New England decor across the Middle West and into California...
...Ramkrishna Dalmia is Mr. Big No. 3 of Indian Big Business.* He owns six newspapers, an airline, a big insurance company, a bank and most of India's cement factories. He also has four wives. Last month Businessman Dalmia, a Hindu, summoned the press to pink lemonade, vanilla ice cream and green gage plums on the lawn of his big house in New Delhi. Then he read a 2,500-word statement. "I ask that people treat the cow and look after it as well as they look after their mother."† Soon thereafter, his six newspapers began referring...
...Foot] is beautiful as a star it's a dream repainted in watercolors on a pearl ... his whole body is full of the light of a thousand lighted electric bulbs-his trousers are inflated with all the perfumes of Arabia his hands are transparent peace and pistachio ice cream-the oysters of his eyes enclose suspended gardens...
...Federal Board of Geographic Names broke the spell of a muggy July day with an ice-cold footnote to history: Franklin Roosevelt had once declined the honor of having an Antarctic sea named for him. The President had informed the board that he would much prefer "a smoking volcano" to a frozen ocean. The board informed the President that it was fresh out of smoking volcanoes...
...price-raising feeling, too. Both companies raised pig-iron prices $3 a ton. Big Steel brushed off the raise as a bookkeeping device. It uses almost all its pig-iron output itself. But the raise was a plain sign of the way both companies were thinking. With the ice broken by smaller companies-and the pattern already set-both were expected to increase steel prices also, thus assuring a general rise in the industry...