Word: macaroni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...property, but the actual business as well. The Council found that 159 colleges and universities are buying commercial enterprises out of endowment funds or with the tax-exempt earnings of businesses they have taken over. Example: New York University takes all the profits from the C. F. Mueller Co. (macaroni, spaghetti & noodles), Ramsey Corp. (piston rings), the $3,300,000 American Limoges China Inc. and the $35 million Howes Leather Co. On their earnings the companies would be paying all told an estimated $1,500,000 a year in federal taxes, if they were still privately held...
...menus in a one week stay included three meals with macaroni as a main attraction, a meal made up of potato chips and an inedible salad, and meat loaf which tasted as if someone had misread the recipes on the back of a Corn Flakes box. Orange juice was always canned, and stewed fruits, and canned spice foods, not what one gives to a convalescing patient, made up the diet. Meat, with the exception of Sunday dinner, was poor and rarely present, while the fish on Friday had, better not be described in print...
...Madame St. Laurent, who spends some of her time in Quebec, his apartment is kept by Mrs. Anne Parr-Morley, a middle-aged Englishwoman. "When I ask him what he wants for a meal," she says, "he almost always says 'Oh, just fix me some eggs.' " He also likes macaroni & cheese and chicken. St. Laurent, though no teetotaler, seldom takes a drink at home, even less often entertains anyone outside his family. Says Mrs. Parr-Morley: "He lives more simply than most ordinary people. He's not at all like our Mr. Churchill was, what with all that whisky...
Supplies to the guerrillas from Tito's Yugoslavia had ceased completely, but Albania was still sending a steady stream of canned beef, jam, sugar, macaroni, guns & ammunition to the Communists' mountain positions. A U.S. officer inspecting the government's crack 9th Division in the Grammos sector saw heavy artillery fire directed against Greek forces from Albanian territory; a Dutch U.N. observer sitting on an upturned ammunition case neatly noted the positions of Communist guns in Albania. The Tirana radio last week charged that Greek government troops had invaded Albanian territory...
...morning Luigi Ottavia sent word to the Rome bureau that the first food package had arrived. He said that Lucia opened it slowly before all the neighbors who could crowd into her dingy room, and that everyone's eyes shone at the contents: ham, coffee, soap, milk, chocolate, macaroni and rice. Said Luigi Ottavia: 'At last she's beginning to believe...