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...last and most important link in the chain is the preparation of food in the University kitchen. Every modern method that has been devised for cleanly handling of food has been installed. Only the highest quality of food is purchased. All the milk and cream is pasteurized. Everything is spick and span. All the dishes are thoroughly cleaned. Every employee in the kitchen is under medical inspection. He must be cleanly in his habits, and he is taught the principles of food sanitation. If ill, he must not work, but is given leave of absence with pay. Refrigeration temperatures...
...their tools." Then seeing the strike pickets idle, he bought baseballs, gloves, bats so that they could play ball in a vacant lot. For those who did not play ball he rented a nearby bowling alley. Meanwhile the strikers got out White brooms, White rubbish cans, kept the sidewalks spick & span...
...Romance Returns to the Railroads," showing a beauteous girl, spick & span in spotless white dress, lounging happily in an air-conditioned car. (". . . Like taking a luxurious overland cruise...
...enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone out that the elderly gentlemen, members of the Armor & Arms Club of New York, were about to forge a 16th Century rapier with all the ancient rites and traditions...
...large osteopathic practice in & around Cambridge, Mass., which he generously shares with one or two beginners. Mrs. Wilson keeps the office spick & span as her own apartment which is adjacent. Their English bull terrier, Judy, 52, regularly summons them to dinner. Judy also "plays the piano." No one may smoke in Dr. Wilson's office. As long as he is there he works "like the devil" until he gets "the jitters," which happens every month or so. Then he and his wife hie off to some quiet place where he can sleep, walk and read "something with no relation...