Word: meals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 250,000 workers in the U.S. Probably No. 1 local caterer is Trainor Bros. Inc., which serves 150,000 workers a day at 13 Detroit factories (including Briggs Mfg., Continental Motors, Fruehauf Trailer) via 20 trucks and trailers and 120 rolling canteens. Average price for a full meal: 35?. Though it takes four caterers to cover the whole of River Rouge, a good part of Henry Ford's giant plant is served by the Springwells Box Lunch Co., which serves 20,000 men a day with a choice of three sandwiches, dessert and fruit...
...years that followed truly brought glory to Mem Hall. Those were the times when she fed one thousand students daily under the vaulted arches of her nave. Hardly a meal passed without some outburst of excitement. Bloody fights among the colored waiters, Class wars, and demonstrations against the constant stream of sightseers who thronged the galleries to "watch the animals eat" served to hallow the bust-lined walls. Many were the wild tales that passed about of stray dogs which disappeared into her kitchens never again to see the light...
That policy means that allowances of the pre-exam brew, already restricted to one a meal, may be lowered to two-cups a day. Any such move, however, would be temporary, and final action will depend on the working of the new coffee rationing plan which starts November...
...they are able to beg, borrow, or steal. Only getting 50 or 60 per cent of what they were using, these places have tried to restrict the sale of coffee in various ways, including stopping sale of "coffee to go" and limiting people to one cup of coffee per meal. Hazen's, formerly using 100 pounds a week, now only gets 40-odd. The late-at-night business had been hit especially hard by this shortage, the manager said...
...Quiet Meal. In Mitchell, Ind., a man entered the home of Mrs. Wayne Chastain, tied her to a chair, gagged her, opened the refrigerator, fed a while, departed...