Word: regales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BACARDI CUBA LIBRE HAS LESS CALORIES THAN A LAMB CHOP. In Los Angeles, a beer ad urged: DON'T GO TO WAIST DRINK REGAL PALE. In New York. Minneapolis and five other cities, Stouffer's restaurants offered special low-calorie lunches; the Pennsylvania Railroad had a 470-calorie "Streamliner" on its dining-car menus. Domino Sugar asked a "diet-conscious public to recognize that three teaspoons of sugar actually contain fewer calories than half a grapefruit . . . or an apple ... or even three small tomatoes...
...unpainted platforms and stands. But as if on signal last week, the curlers and mudpack came off, and London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations, designed by Sir Hugh Casson (architect of the Festival of Britain), were conceived with two objects in mind-to be regal (for the solemn occasion), yet gay (for the youth of the new Queen). Tiny roses glowed with plastic radiance from lampposts along St. James's, huge plumed brass helmets gave swagger to others in old Piccadilly, and the famed statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus was encased in a huge...
BROWN Shoes ("Buster Browns"), having bought up two competitors in the past month, will soon take over Regal Shoe under an agreement reached with Regal stockholders last week. It is the latest in a series of merger deals in the shoe industry stemming from the fear of tough competition ahead and higher costs resulting from rising prices for top-grade hides...
...hero is Sid Sorokin, late of Chicago and Regal Pants Inc. Sid is plant superintendent for Sleep Tite now, and Sleep Tite (the Pa jama for Men of Bedroom Discrimination) is booming. The trouble is that the union is demanding a 7½-cents-an-hour raise, and pulling a' slowdown to get it. Sid's problem is complicated by the fact that his boss, Mr. Hasler, is determined not to knuckle under to the union, while Sid's girl, redheaded Babe Williams, is one of the union ringleaders...
...Angeles, health food stores were seeing lots of new customers. Some merely bought sugarless candy; others asked the storekeeper to work out a complete diet for them. A San Francisco brewery got in the swim by advertising: "Regal Pale Is the Low-Calorie Beer." In Atlanta, the Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill was punishing himself at breakfast and lunch with a trick powder, mixed with fruit juice, to kill appetite. Said McGill, 25 Ibs. lighter in 14 weeks: "I just decided to stop being silly about it and lose some of that ugly weight." His regimen still allowed...