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Word: menus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closeted themselves for two days in the elegant presidential chateau at Rambouillet 30 miles outside Paris. Security was so tight that a small crowd was chased away from the fence, and not even the menus for the meals were published. Once Adenauer slipped out for an hour's visit to the great Gothic cathedral at Chartres. For the rest of the time the two men talked and walked, engaged in earnest conversation with barely a handful of officials present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Builders | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...Varied Menus. Presently out in front is Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. (1959 gross income: $140.5 million), which both makes and operates vending machines. Automatic Canteen has developed a battery of vending machines that offer a complete snack line including infra-red toasted sandwiches, hot soup, chili, baked beans, pastry, coffee and cigarettes. Says Automatic Canteen Chairman Nathaniel Leverone: "The sales potential in in-plant feeding alone is at least as great as the entire automatic vending business is now." In an industry where profits for operating companies run about 3% of sales after taxes, Automatic Canteen expects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Automatic Salesmen | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

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