Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This month the Boston Conference on Distribution met, argued about production and distribution, decided that high costs of distribution were a big factor in the U. S. dilemmas. Meanwhile silent, big-tied Distributor John Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., ran the world's biggest chain store, distributed more food to more people, and probably more cheaply than any organization had ever distributed...
Drinking from one to ten cokes a day is as much a part of college life as saddle shoes and finals. The coke custom is the American collegiate substitute for afternoon tea, it is the excuse for relaxation and conversation. Everyone orders a coke, plain or flavored, usually from lack of originality, force of habit, or because it's his favorite drink...
...would it work? Lady Reading and her 300 aids in their old building on Tothill Street, Westminster, kept their fingers crossed and waited. By nightfall the last of the district leaders had reported by wire, and they knew. The children were received, no hitches, no accidents-CHILDREN HAD TEA AND GONE TO BED-CHILDREN FED, SCRUBBED, RETIRED...
...Agriculture-25,000 girls were sent to agricultural schools for a month and then, when they learned to plow, milk, drive tractors, onto the land. All this was done without costing the Government sixpence (except rent, stationery and the salaries of 50 clerical workers and two men to make tea at London headquarters). "We begged, we borrowed," says Lady Reading, "and I am ashamed to say, sometimes we stole...
...Radcliffe girls came stag. Within the staid and ivied walls of Brooks House, dancing is taboo. But there is a rumor that Harvard's social service center will continue its work of breaking down traditional Harvard-Radcliffe antipathy by sponsoring a tea dance later this fall...