Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal they found the prices comparatively low, the fun high. They crowded into the famed Au Lutin Qui Bouffe (The Greedy Imp) on St. Gregoire Street, where a baby porker ran around nuzzling the legs of diners, and apple pie arrived flaming in rum at the tables. They gobbled up the bread sticks, vin ordinaire (and extraordinaire) and hors d'oeuvres at the Cafe Martin, Chez Ernest and Chez Stien...
Faith & Sweet Potatoes. In two years Mrs. Bethune's school was teaching 250 girls. By selling sweet-potato pie and ice cream to the railroad construction gangs, she raised enough money to buy the oozing city dump (known as "Hell's Hole"). Negro workmen, who took out part of their pay in tuition, built Faith Hall with secondhand bricks on 32 acres reclaimed from the dump...
...reply to an investigation of a complaint that Fiske's charged 15 cents extra for pie-a-la-mode, Mrs. Fiske said that she had to pay $4.00 more a jug for cream, raising her bulk price of ice cream to $1.00 a quart...
Fiske's...$.15 extra for ice cream on pie...
Transpacific air routes, once Pan American Airways' private pie, were sliced up last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board, over Pan American's objections, handed a luscious slice to United Air Lines, which during the war flew some 5,000 flights between the U.S. and Hawaii for the Army. United got a San Francisco to Honolulu route paralleling Pan Am's. CAB picked United from the six applicants for the route because a majority of the travelers to Hawaii come from U.S. cities served by United. Thus United will be able to offer them single-carrier service...