Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred and seventy miles south, on the same Atlantic coast, a pea-soup fog swallowed two other joyriders. Nicholas S. Embiricos, 32, Greek-born director of a London shipping firm, and Mrs. Eleanor Young, 23 (ex-Mrs. Robert Ogden Bacon Jr., ex-Manhattan glamor girl), had taken off from Newport, R.I. in a Fairchild monoplane to fly to New York. At Matunuck, twelve miles down the coast, amateur Pilot Embiricos circled, found a rift in the fog, nosed downward for a landing. As he leveled off, a wave slapped the wings, and the plane crashed in shallow water. Embiricos died...
Whatever the merits of Alex Taub's quest, the Sabre, already flying in the formidable Hawker Typhoon fighter, was a fair symbol of the horsepower race. Well knowing that there is no substitute for "soup," British designers had gone all out after horsepower. The Sabre turns up nearly twice the horsepower of the old British pursuit engine, the 1,200 horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin (which Packard is still tooling up to make for Britain and the U.S., under a $187,500,000 order). But the U.S. is hot after horsepower too: it already...
...with defense business eventually, in many cases already have enough to live on. But Singer has some 20,000 salesmen, who are not trained for defense work, and who would then have nothing to sell. As for small users of die castings without defense work, many are in the soup already. Some victims...
...present time the J.D.C. is spending thousands of dollars monthly for relief, care of refugees and emigration. It maintains six soup kitchens in Paris, which feed 5,000 persons daily...
They have no salmon, few sardines, no canned fruit (not even unpopular plums), a dwindling store of canned vegetables, spaghetti, beans, soup...