Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately for Pete Putnam and his crew, the "Cup" turned out to be an empty wine bottle, and the "shirts" were empty potato sacks...
Last week the department had a new hot potato. Potatoes from Canada, which also had a surplus, were flooding the U.S., underselling the propped-up domestic spud. In Portland, Maine, right in the nation's own potato patch, Canadian potatoes were about 40? a 100 Ibs. (15%) cheaper, despite a duty of 37½?; and 43? freight. Maine so far this season has shipped only 133 carloads of potatoes (v. 483 at this time last year), while Canada had sent 398 carloads into...
...Curricular" and full of tips on appearance--"We know that beauty is only skin deep, but you don't have to look as though you lived only for things of the mind,"--and activities--"Eat where people don't mind your eating. In the far reaches of the library, potato chips sound like static on a 1932 radio...
...comparative prices, a meal of shrimps, wine, tomato and potato salad, more wine, steak and, of course, French fried potatoes and more wine, and cheese for dessert costs a dollar at any of the restaurants off the large boulevards. Movies range from a dime to a dollar, the opera four times a week can be enjoyed for thirty cents, the Folies start at sixty-five, and exhibitions for five run around a buck and a half each. These are computed at the legal rate of exchange of 3000 francs to the dollar...
...next winter. "In those primitive days," he said, "social security was had from the cellar, not from the federal government." He recalled how he earned his first money: "I entered into collective bargaining by which it was settled that I should receive one cent per hundred for picking potato bugs in a field in sight of this stand. My impression then, and now, is that it was an oppressive wage rate...