Word: pies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first in pre-season prognostications, had managed to stay in the first division, not so much by the pitching of famed Dizzy Dean as by the performance of the season's outstanding batter, Outfielder Joe Medwick. whose average of .375 last week was leading the league. Easygoing Harold ("Pie") Traynor's Pittsburgh Pirates, after a runaway lead during the month of May, seemed likely to finish fourth...
Just "fooling around," Pieman Strause one day invented chiffon pie. This and his beautiful pie trucks soon made him famed all along the West Coast. In 1924, when he was 23, he sold his business for $48,000 to two New Yorkers and became a pie consultant in Los Angeles. He now has an office in Manhattan and 38 permanent clients, ranging from a New York bakery which pays him $6,000 a year for three visits of at least three days each to smaller bakeries which pay $300 a year. Married to a pretty girl who has never baked...
...modest young man named Monroe "'Boston'' Strause, the current sensation of the pastry world. Son of a Los Angeles flour miller named Boston Monroe Strause, he uses his middle name as a kind of trademark. First in partnership with his Uncle Mike in the M. & M. Pie Co. of Los Angeles, "Boston" carried on when Mike quit. A friendly restaurateur helped him design cylindrical aluminum carrying racks for his pies, mahogany-trimmed pie trucks. "They were simply beautiful," Pieman Strause remembers, "just like Pullman cars...
...caterers last week '"Boston" Strause, aided by six assistants and a blackboard, demonstrated a method of making fresh apple pie by draining off the apple juice and sugar through a colander and pouring it back into the pie through holes in the crust while baking. He did not demonstrate his fresh strawberry pie, which he says "has never been revealed to the housewife." Recipe: use frozen fresh strawberries, freeze again immediately after cooking. The strawberries remain whole...
...advertising pie for the first six months of 1937 was statistically cut up in Printers' Ink last week. As a pie, the amount spent by advertisers (with at least $50,000 annual appropriations) on radio, magazines and farm journals, was 20% bigger than last year for the same period. And everybody got bigger pieces than they got year before. The proportion of increase in advertising revenue was not, however, uniform. Advertisers divided their money thus: $66,478,000 to magazines (16% increase) $34,232,000 to radio (32% increase), $5,512,000 to farm publications (14% increase...