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...Used to be you could go into Thompson's and get two eggs, toast and a cup of scalding black coffee for 15?. Now it costs you 35?. Two sinkers and a cup of coffee is up from a nickel to 15?. A plate of beef stew used to sell for a dime: now it costs you 30? and it ain't got no meat...
...Dollars. The new President's next move on the international chessboard was his own secret, if even he knew it. Perhaps, as the crowd seemed to think, Perón was going to let Ambassador Messersmith stew in his own State Department's juice-at least for a while...
...hour early to catch the streetcar to work. To save money, Pedro had also stopped lunching downtown, and that meant another scramble for a ride home. Maria, his wife, knew how to stretch a peso, but the noonday meal seldom varied from the traditional puchero (meat and vegetable stew...
...warnings that a separate Pakistan would be poor and backward, Jinnah answers: "Why are the Hindus worrying so much about us? Let us stew in our own juice if we are willing. . . . [The Hindus] would be getting rid of the poorest parts of India, so they ought to be glad. The economy would take care of itself in time...
...story: an oyster-bar waitress (Deanna) yearns for a stage career and dupes an eminent actor (Laughton) into signing a letter of recommendation while he is engrossed in an oyster stew. Eventually she is enfolded in the arms of handsome Playwright Tone. Among the intervening spectacles...