Word: lapin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, coffee caterers can usually convince employers that a coffee break on the job can be actually a break for the boss. "Coffee breaks make money for the employer by increasing efficiency," advertises Chicago's Standard Coffee Service. In Los Angeles Al and Jerry Lapin, young (26 and 28) owners of Coffee Time, Inc., ask businessmen: "What is your employees' time worth?" If 25 workers each take an extra 15 minutes a day to go out for coffee, argue the Lapins, they may cost their employer more than $100 a week v. Coffee Time's $21.20 weekly...
...past fortnight, Russian radio listeners have been getting the Marxist lowdown on U.S. radio and TV. In a series grimly entitled "The Mouthpiece of American Reaction," Soviet Announcer Lapin has been saying that "radio, which is the great discovery of a Russian genius, the mighty weapon of culture and progress, has been transformed in imperialist America into a hotbed of vulgarity and ignorance, into a tool of profitmaking, slander and deceit . . . It is poisoning the politically backward and uncultured people with the virus of chauvinism and militarism...