Word: snacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. James A. Dewar, 88, Continental Baking Co. vice president who retired in 1972 and who in 1930 invented the celebrated Hostess Twinkie, a sponge cake filled with sweet cream, beloved of schoolchildren and bewailed by nutritionists, that with 40 billion sold has become the nation's favorite snack cake; in Downers Grove, Ill. To critics, Dewar said, "I fed them to my four kids. Twinkies never hurt them...
...flight from Seoul to Los Angeles, (where, according to an Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman, a second Statue of Liberty ought to be erected), took 13 1/2 hours, two movies, three meals and a snack. Yeon Hee Park, 33, and her two sons, Sung Joon, 8, and Yong Joon, 7, passed the hours pleasantly. No one became...
...Houston, Indochinese immigrants have become an economic presence, sometimes virtually the only sign of vitality in otherwise depressed areas. Many own or manage 24-hour convenience stores in predominantly black neighborhoods. Says a black Texas Southern University maintenance man who stopped in for a snack at a Vietnamese-run store: "For the first time you can buy fresh meat right in the neighborhood. It's the idea that a foreigner can come in here and move up so quickly that disgusts people." City Councilman Anthony Hall sees the immigrants as models, not enemies. Says he: "They have pooled their resources...
...mergers brewed on three major fronts. Nabisco Brands (1984 sales: $6.3 billion) held exploratory talks with R.J. Reynolds (1984 sales: $13 billion). Wall Street speculates that Reynolds, which sells cigarettes, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Del Monte foods, would pay some $5.3 billion to gobble up Nabisco, king of the snack cupboard and maker of Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Baby Ruth candy bars...
Epps says using freshmen as runners isn't such a bad idea. "Oh, yes, I think it would be good for upperclassmen to send to Elsie's for a late-night snack," he jests...