Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aides told McLane: "We are taking over. . . . You won't do anything we want you to do and we are taking over. . . . You got to go away." McLane went. In this simple manner, said he, Nitti gangsters had taken over Chicago waiters, hotel clerks, hat-check girls, cooks, soda jerkers, organized the "Local Joint Board & Council of Chicago," and obliged all union members to pay tribute...
...each customer's dollar plunked down on grocery counters for potatoes, farmers get 47?, for apples 33?, for dairy products 46?, for corn flakes 20?, for soda crackers 8?. Of each dollar spent for food a quarter of a century ago, the farmer received 52 to 60?; in recent years his share seldom has exceeded...
...reported that "appreciable quantities of the calcium of the teeth go into solution when an aspirin gargle is used. . . . Over a number of years [the gargle] might well result in permanent damage to the teeth." However, the Lancet added, the teeth are unharmed if equal quantities of bicarbonate of soda are dissolved with aspirin...
...farsighted or lucky. When he laid out his program in 1935 he reckoned on kitchen utensils, Boy Scout knives, soda fountains, perhaps the automobile and construction trades to take the bulk of his expanded output. But 1940 finds him sitting on top of a war boom that keeps some departments of his new plant on three shifts. Because Rustless sells only ingots, billets, slabs, bars, rods and wire, does no fabricating, "Tut" is not sure what percent of his sales go into defense. But stainless steel is used for turbine blades in warships, for the barrels of Garand rifles...
Rare in Eastern colleges but common in the Middle West is an institution known as the Student Union. Boasting dining halls, ballrooms, bowling alleys, soda fountains, lounges, music rooms, cinemas, nightclubs, Student Unions in the last ten years have become the social centres of the huge State universities...