Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheaper than ordinary foods, because they need not be graded for size or selected for beauty or packed in tin; and shipping and handling is simplified. When water is added and the food warmed up (not cooked again), it is best served, of course, as sauces, soups, pie fillings, etc. Food powders make good mashed potatoes-far better than the dark, gooey "shoeblack" potatoes dehydrated for the U.S. Army in World War I by some 15 processors, few of whom, with their crude techniques, survived the peace.* Though Army quartermasters are not keen about some of today's dried...
...went to his annual Warm Springs turkey dinner, twice postponed by the crisis. He did well by the 4,300 calories (twice the volume of three ordinary meals) from gingered fresh fruit in cider through roast young torn turkey and oyster-corn stuffing to pumpkin pie...
...candidate. All the ward-heeling machinery which has been growing rusty since La Guardia made up his mind to do away with that kind of a machine age has sprung once more into action. Every Bronz big-shot and Brooklyn saloon keeper who has a finger in the Tammany pie is licking his chops in anticipation of an early feast after a long famine...
This odd scheme marks the end of a four-month fight between Leon Henderson and the cotton mills, is one of the biggest pieces of humble pie Leon has yet eaten. When he fixed his original textile ceiling, Henderson had his eye on cotton speculators (among them the mills), overlooked the fact that in the long run prices of cotton and cotton goods go together like Mutt & Jeff. Before the revisions, the basic goods ceiling was 43?. But this price was set in July when cotton was 1-2? cheaper than it has been since. Thus for months the cotton...
Although Daniel bests him at the trial, it is Scratch who has the picture's last word. Perched on a rail fence, full of the peach pie which Ma Stone baked especially for the victorious orator, he thumbs jauntily through his address book for a fresh victim. And the person he picks makes any audience gasp...