Word: porcelain
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...type candy every day. Blum's now makes 1,308 different varieties of candy, ice cream and cakes (his St. Patrick's Day ice cream is labeled "Erin Ga Blum"). Levy also prodded sales with some merchandising razzle-dazzle, put candy in everything from French porcelain dishes and satin hats to great, flat, silver-wrapped boxes the size of dinner trays. He plugged snob appeal and "personalized" packages. (Singer Hildegarde's is shaped like a grand piano...
Like any suburban commuter, Hensch found his wife waiting in a car by the field. He gave her the flowers, the porcelain snail, the rat's fur walrus and the note. She translated it haltingly. It said: "On the 100th day of the blockade God lives with you flyers. Health, happiness and skill for all of you and a quick return to the old days, and the joyous end of the blockade...
...engines growled on and Baker, with nothing to do, took a box from the ledge above the instrument panel. He unwrapped it-more presents from grateful Germans: a little porcelain snail, some flowers, and a toy walrus made out of rat's fur. There was a note addressed: An unseren Blokade Flieger. Hensch could not read it, but he said: "Wait till my wife gets ahold of that. She'll start sending them food packages. She's always sending these Germans presents...
That was too much for C. J. Rodman of the Porcelain Enamel Institute, and president of Allianceware, Inc. of Alliance, Ohio. Rodman makes metal fixtures, such as baths and sinks, and fears the Government-financed competition of Lustron, which he contends is tooled up to make four times as many fixtures as will be needed for its houses. Rodman even hinted that the new loan was given to help Lustron concentrate on fixture-manufacturing, thus protecting RFC's original stake in Lustron. Cried Rodman: "This loan and the Government's entire relations with Lustron have an extremely...
Thereupon bullet-headed Daikichi Ubukata, 67-year-old Democrat, rose solemnly from his blue plush seat, slowly wobbled over to a porcelain spittoon in one corner to execute a unique political comment. Ubukata was heard boasting in a bus next morning: "I am probably the only person in history who has ever relieved himself in the main hall of the Diet...