Word: souped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Young recalls that in the days before the SEC existed, "there were no required disclosures, no data. Editors had to guess at sales figures." One enterprising FORTUNE writer, doing a story on the secretive Campbell Soup Co., noted how much butter went into a vat of tomato soup, priced the cost of wholesale butter and other ingredients and figured Campbell's annual profits at $6 million. He also estimated the estate of its former owner at $120 million...
...workers observe the blatant butchering of innocent citizens knowing that at any time it could be them at the other end of the gun. Manipulated by greedy bosses who refuse to make concessions to their simple requests for more money to enable them to eat their dinner of soup and to live in their hovels, the workers go on strike in desperation only to get clubbed and shot at by the police...
...Nohmura went on to his evening's business entertainment. He escorted a favored client and one of the client's associates to an elegant restaurant ($110 a person) where, seated on cushions on a tatami-covered floor, they dined on a twelve-course meal that included clear soup, sashimi and tempura. That contrasted with the group's next stop, a Western-style nightspot, where Cardin-clad hostesses poured liberal amounts of whisky and brandy. Cost for the after-dinner stop, which continued until well after 11 p.m., was $360. "I don't like entertaining," says Nohmura...
Many of the microbreweries are outgrowths of home brewing and retain their amateur trappings. Real Ale produces its ale, porter and stout in a used 30-gal. soup kettle on the second floor of a former stove factory. The premises are shared by five workers and a seven-month-old, beer-guzzling Airedale named Porter. Thousand Oaks Brewing (1982 sales: $23,460) operates from the basement of the Berkeley, Calif, home of Charles and Diana Rixford. In Boulder, Colo., David Hummer, a University of Colorado astrogeophysicist, co-founded Boulder Brewing (1982 sales: $96,000) with two partners in what used...
Committee workers, who include artists, writers, physicians and lawyers, come and go as their time permits. The Franciscan nuns provide the space, the electricity and a bowl of soup for those who put in a full day. Sometimes committee members take up collections, but most of the donations come from abroad, particularly West Germany, Belgium, France, Sweden and Japan. Sympathetic Americans contribute cash, which is used to buy medicine and vitamins...