Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...command post on Jerusalem's anciently named Hill of Evil Counsel, Major General Carlsson von Horn, Swedish chief of staff of the U.N. Palestine Truce Supervision Organization, had just spread a luncheon napkin across his knees when the walkie-talkie telephone began to grunt and gasp. An aide picked it up and took the message: Israelis and Jordanians were shooting at each other in the demilitarized zone on Mount Scopus behind the Mount of Olives...
...branded products, including the nation's best-selling coffee, Maxwell House; its biggest-selling frozen foods, Birds Eye; such old staples as Baker's cooking chocolate, Jell-O and Swans Down cake flour; and its top-selling dog meal, Gaines. General Foods' products go from breakfast (Post's cereals) to warm nightcaps (Postum, Sanka), also wash the pots and pans that its foods are cooked in (S.O.S. Scouring Pads...
From Bran to Bigness. This empire grew out of a coffee grinder, a gasoline stove and $11.95 worth of wheat and bran. In 1895, near Battle Creek, Mich., a health-foods fan named Charles William Post roasted the wheat and bran, ground them, added sweeteners. Result: Postum. Two years later, Post stirred up the same sort of mixture, produced one of the first cold cereals-Grape Nuts. He formed the Postum Cereal Co., plugged his two products as cure-alls for appendicitis, dyspepsia and other ailments. Some magazines balked at his flamboyant advertising, but Post became the foremost advertiser...
McGann is leaving to take a permanent post as assistant professor of History at the University of Texas. He taught all the History Department's courses on Latin America: Social Sciences 133, An Introduction to Latin American Civilization; History 177, History of Colombia and Venezuela, and History 178, History of Colombia in alternating years; and a graduate seminar in Latin American History...
...Chair in Latin American History was endowed so long ago, Gilmore said, that it no longer supports the full cost of a professor. Gilmore stated that the money will be used for the guest lecturer next spring, if he is secured, or will be kept to help endow the post when a new man is found...