Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M.I.T. graduate who got his start in the Depression washing kettles for the Campbell Soup Co., Bunker moved to the Wilson meat-packing company as an engineer in 1934, did a stint as head of the industrial engineering department, and became manufacturing vice president for the Kroger Co. Then Cincinnati's Trailmobile Co., makers of truck trailers, heard about the boy wonder and hired him as president in 1949. In a year and a half, Bunker streamlined Trailmobile's sales, services and production, doubled sales to $52 million and increased the net more than tenfold...
...turn on the air conditioning and seal themselves in their house, with occasional trips to the immense swimming pool at the nearby Hubara Club. "We go to Kuwait once a week," Mrs. Jackson says. "There's a store called Jolly Brothers where we can get Campbell's soup, American coffee, peanut butter, jelly and saltine crackers...
Bean Pots & Trouble. Then in the '30s, his books stopped selling. Money came seldom and trouble often. Once, on an unconventional camping trip, the poet scalded his right foot by stepping in a pot of hot bean soup. Police said he had been dancing in the moonlight. He demanded relief for poets from a municipal relief agency. Given a $2.50 voucher for groceries, he complained that he had no home, no way of cooking the groceries, and cried indignantly that he was unable to eat the voucher itself. He was reported dying of tuberculosis, and 50 Greenwich Village poets...
...eyebrows but did not laugh. Nor did they think he was wacky; he was just getting over a kind of fish poisoning which the medical profession calls ichthyotoxism. It is the only disorder doctors know of in which temperature reactions are reversed, e.g., a victim complains that his hot soup is cold, or that his ice water is scalding his tongue...
This gift has an all day use. In the evening for parties, it pops corn. In the morning, it poaches eggs. It can also boil tea, cook soup, and keep hot buttered rum and toddies warm. This only suggests its manifold uses--heating the baby's bottle is another--which will come to the resourceful recipient. Regularly priced at $6.75, it is going for $5.75 at Bay State...