Word: straub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capitalism, then, doomed to go down before the shmoo? Not at all. Old Man Mose totally misunderstood the nature of the capitalist system and of the economic animal. A striking illustrative example came from a point due east of Shmoo Valley-San Francisco-where a man named Ott Straub recently opened a new eating place. It was a drive-in, with its own radio station which broadcast any desired tune to the customers eating below; it had a dining room, a cocktail lounge, an open-air patio, and 85 carhops...
...Food Rationer Walter Straub figures that the tokens will save shopkeepers an annual $35 million worth of time otherwise spent sorting stamps. The American taxpayer, he judges, will save $1.5 million every time a new ration book is not issued...