Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squeeze cellophane-wrapped loaves of Bimbo bread and Bimbollos (rolls). Husbands buy bottles of the new, high-quality tequila (from the modernized distilleries in the town of Tequila, 35 miles away) and Sangrita, a tequila chaser made of a secret formula of tomato juice, lime juice, orange juice, sugar, salt, pepper, chilies and spices. The couples watch carefully as automatic cash registers whir up the week's purchases in toothpaste, carrots and dehydrated pimento soup - and then they stop by the Laundromat to pick up the washing...
...Central News Agency in Taipei; many of its features come from 40 uniformed correspondents in forward posts; its local news is gathered by two fulltime reporters. Counting delivery boys, Cheng Ch'i's staff numbers 70. Average salary: $10 a month, plus free firewood, rice, cooking oil, salt, clothing and cigarettes...
...most sprightly of the publications was a magazine called Etc., which was started in 1938 and lasted for four years. It first appeared with a brilliant purple and green cover, and glossy pages. It described itself as "your grain of salt, your germ of laughter, your dash of wit." It included light fiction, cartoons, and short poems such as "If you have a chassis
...Salt Lake Line...
...Thousands who never knew that Casey Jones had actually existed still sang of him-and of the other papa on the Salt Lake Line. And last week, impoverished and bitter, Janie Jones, 92, died in Jackson. She had never remarried...