Word: menus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Helene Curtis spray (a top PX item despite the fact that no American military dependents are allowed in Thailand). Ubiquitous transistors thrum with American pop tunes (current favorite: Love Potion No. 9), and such examples of American cuisine as cheeseburgers and chicken-in-the-basket now grace the menus in Udorn. The U.S. Army's Ninth Logistical Command employs 3,000 of Korat's 80,000 residents, pumps $150,000 a month into the town in salaries alone. That does not count the greenbacks spent by Americans on food and drinks at the bars that are springing...
Dogs go everywhere. They take cars, boats, trains and planes. They find special accommodations in some hotels and special menus in some restaurants. TWA reports that it carried several hundred more pounds of pets this year than last. U.S. Lines has found a sharp increase in dog passengers. Airport animal shelters in San Francisco and New York have doubled their business in five years...
...more than 18 in. (high) by 18 in. (wide) by 27 in. (long). On liners of the Italian Line, dogs travel first class in small cabins of their own, even if their owners go tourist. On the France, there are not only private dog deck, luxurious kennels and special menus, but to put the international travelers completely at ease, there is a choice of French milestone or American hydrant...
...good roads also have a cost in monotony. The antiseptic highway stretches on and on and on. The green-and-white signs are the same. The little clusters of commerce-at-the-cloverleaf are eminently the same. Even the jargon on the menus of the identical restaurants ("char-broiled steak smothered in mushrooms sauteed in fresh country butter") is the same. Yet, happily enough, as the freeway driver highballs from one similar place to another, leisurely and nostalgic souls who want to sample the color and culture of America's side roads can do so readily...
...handful of the migrants have been European. The most numerous (and sought after) "New Australians" still are "Pommies,"* meaning Britons. But it has been the arrival of 1,000,000 Continental Europeans in two decades that has most profoundly influenced the way of life Down Under. Once stolid menus now offer Bratwurst and steak Bordelaise, Australian football stars have names like Ditterich and Silvagni, and Danish modern furniture comes all the way from Melbourne or Sydney. This week Immigration Minister Hubert Opperman returned from a six-week tour of Europe, jubilant at having signed new immigration treaties with Malta...