Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mills Corp. (automatic vendors) thought the idea worth trying. So' last week it unveiled its newest gadget-an automatic coffee vendor. From piped-in water and powdered coffee, the machine makes an electrically heated brew, for 5? Its four buttons serve a paper-cupful with cream or sugar, both, or neither...
...present domestic policies was a new Five-Year Plan whose details make interesting reading for anyone trying to figure out how Russia will behave on the world stage in the next few years. By 1950, if the present plan is completely fulfilled, each Russian will still have less sugar than in 1913, less beef and mutton than in 1929, less soap and oil than in 1937, less pork than in 1938, less living space, shoes & stockings than...
There are less gaudy symbols of inflation: in tiny stores and markets, the price of beans, rice and sugar creeps up, day by day. (Basic food costs have gone up 441% since...
Nevertheless, as a safeguard, the Government intended to continue rationing of meat, butter, sugar and preserves for many months. The last wartime restriction to go would almost surely be rent control. As far as any one could see end of that was still several years away...
...executive order setting it up was flown to Harry Truman's Florida playland last week with OWMR Boss John R. Steelman. When the President signed it, OPA's remaining 34,736 employes (peak, 63,428) and its controls over rent, rice and sugar would be absorbed by the newcomer...