Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restaurant in London's Olympia exhibition hall last week, British government officials sat down to a meal of "Frood," a new British product hailed as a likely dollar-getter in the export trade. But Frood turned out to be nothing more than precooked frozen food. With the U.S. frozen-food market already oversold, it looked as if Britons could not have picked a worse time to try to invade it. The only thing to give U.S. businessmen pause was that Frood's maker, J. Lyons & Co., Ltd., was not likely to back a bad bet. By consistently backing...
...last day, the record companies worked long, shirt-sleeved hours to wax what they could. On the Coast, Decca's Jack Kapp personally supervised the last output (with orchestra) of his longtime meal ticket, Bing Crosby. In Chicago, the virtues of soup, soda, beer and cheese were hymned by singers and small bands right up to midnight. From now on, singing commercials could be made with voice and ocarina or harmonica accompaniment, but not with union musicians...
...Meals at Midnight. Kirkpatrick keeps his 30-dog kennel on a lot about two miles from the track. At 7 a.m., his trainer and two assistants take each pooch for a walk. Then the dogs have their toenails pedicured, get combed and rubbed. At 10:30, the dogs are put in kennels and the blinds are pulled down. They nap until 4. A couple of hours before the race, they are taken from their owners and kept under inspection by the Florida Racing Commission. At midnight, after the races, Kirkpatrick's greyhounds get their one meal...
Made of unbreakable Vinylite, the Holt-Army records give four hours of instruction on 44 sides-against one hour and 52 minutes for its long-established competitor, Linguaphone. The Army's 1,200-word vocabulary is commonplace instead of cultural, concentrates on such workaday problems as ordering a meal, seeing the sights, locating the washroom...
...able to poison the bugs that bite them. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture was hard at work on this project. Many modern insecticides have only a slight effect on warm-blooded creatures. An animal whose blood is spiced with some such deadly substance should make an unattractive meal for lice, ticks or mosquitoes...