Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schwerin's staff studied some 2,400,000 individual meals, recommended such changes as a cut in soup (which G.I.s did not care for) and a boost in ice cream. He also worked out a formula for predicting how many soldiers would show up for a given meal, thus cut waste. The Army followed the report, saving taxpayers an estimated $110 million yearly...
...predictable characters and situations, Lawford still manages to infuse some wit and awareness into the stereotyped proceedings. But what little advantage he gains is lost when Lawford and the tough city editor sit down at program's end to rhapsodize about the glories of Sponsor Campbell's soup...
...ranch a mile down the road, Ike barely had his coat off before he was in the kitchen starting on his big project: a two-day vegetable soup. Hoover, an accomplished fly-fisherman who does not share Ike's love of cooking, spent more time wading in shallow St. Louis Creek. Next day reporters were allowed on the ranch to watch the President sign the social security bill and invited to stick around and watch him broil a dozen thick steaks on an outdoor grill. Hoover ambled up to the grill. As usual, he was grimly hanging onto...
...since Sir Harry Lauder. Hubert Gregg makes a sopping good Milquetoast as Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed aboard the Maggie to see that the boss's orders are carried out. And the bonny little fiend of a cabin boy, Tommy Kearins, with his soup-bowl haircut and that grand commercial light in his eye, is every dirty inch the Huck Finn of the Hebrides...
Administration is duck soup for the incumbent Under Secretary, able, prickly W. Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's wartime Chief of Staff and postwar head of the Central Intelligence Agency. But Smith is leaving Government work because 1) he is not in good health (ulcers), and 2) he wants to make some money (as-executive vice president of American Machine & Foundry Co.). To succeed Smith, President Eisenhower last week appointed Herbert Hoover Jr., 51, son of the Republican ex-President. Hoover Jr. is a tall, unassuming engineer with diplomatic talents who carried off the oil settlement in Iran (TIME...