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...plus 10? for each day they actually use it). Gene backed up to the curb and began to arrange the vegetables and fruit on packing boxes, along the running board, and on the tailboard. When all was in order, he left Winnifred in charge and went to a nearby lunchroom for a belated breakfast (pork chop, pineapple pie, coffee with plenty of sugar). His wife went to eat later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Market Day | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, A.F.L. restaurant workers tried a new strike technique. One noontime, they padlocked a Brass Rail lunchroom, held 28 customers imprisoned for 35 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Food in the school lunchroom was "just plain lousy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Current Affairs Test | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Cheyenne (Warner) is as hard to distinguish from most other westerns as one Fred Harvey lunchroom is from the next. Dennis Morgan chases assorted desperadoes up & down hill through semi-arid shrubbery and past many picturesque specimens of erosion. The desperadoes chase the stagecoaches. Every so often someone gets shot, plunges from saddle or coachman's seat and rolls over & over. The hero plugs four desperate characters, largely because they hadn't lived long enough to learn that in bright sunlight a man's shadow can forecast his presence, however stealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

When the war ended, J. Robert Oppenheimer was worn out. He said that he wished he could go some place and run a lunchroom. For 2½ years he had bossed the 4,500 scientists and technicians of the Los Alamos atom-bomb labs. After that, he thought, short-order cooking would seem like a restful vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oppy's Retreat | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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