Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-day tour (including Moscow) for which each paid $400. This figures out to a total of $180,000, but the Soviet press presently announced that the tourists actually spent $250,000. "One man from Boston," said Pravda, "paid our Government 25,000 rubles [$12,750] for a silver tea set which belonged to the Tsar." Buying began on the very landing pier in a specially erected bazaar, stocked with products of Red workers and property confiscated from onetime Russian aristocrats, all of which the U. S. shoppers seemed eager to buy. They paid, according to Pravda, "more than...
...Most remarkable report of the week was that of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America whose 17,000 chain stores turned in gross sales of $548,059,000 for the first six months of 1930. This is up $41,222,000 from 1929, an 8.13% in crease.* June sales came to $82,882,000 and 407,085 in tons, as against June 1929 totals of $76,653,000 and 353,289 tons. The gain in tonnage, about twice as great as the gain in profits, is significant. A. & P. has opened few new stores, has swelled its profits...
...contrary to the orders of the reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves, that she herself had hired the old negro for this occasion, the other ladies of the city were indignant. Before that, they said, she had paraded an adopted baby...
Britons had a prime news tidbit to stir with their tea last week: Queen Mary smokes cigarets! London's News-Chronicle found it out. What brand she prefers the News-Chronicle could not say, but smoke she does: one cigaret after lunch, one cigaret after tea, no more...
Hearing rumors that Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton was ill, would not be able to attend the America's Cup races in September, the New York World cabled the tea tycoon, received the same day a reply: "Many thanks. . . . Glad to say I am feeling in excellent health and am quite willing to take on Jack Dempsey. . . . Am looking forward with the greatest pleasure to another contest for the famous old mug and am confident the Shamrock will put up a good show...