Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Vag found him, he was sitting at a corner table, staring at a glass of iced tea. "Did you ever wonder about Eskimos?" he asked, after Vag had pulled up a chair. "What I mean is, how they ever stand such a boring life...
...paused to give the tea dregs a final stir. It was an amber slush now, and not worth drinking. "Well, that's life," he said finally. Vag nodded as he turned toward the Kitchen window with his tray...
...oils. What they have sent has often proved inferior, e.g., low-quality newsprint that tears in Cairo's high-speed Western presses. Cracked a Cairo editor: "Pravda must go to press at 6 o'clock at night." The domestic economy twitches along in austerity and torpor, with tea and sugar scarcely obtainable except at black-market prices, and the regime invoking military law in an effort to force butchers to sell meat at new, government-set prices. The price of kerosene, essential for cooking and lighting in the fellah's household, is up 10% since last November...
Among the pleasant oddities of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the world's biggest grocery, is the unique form of its management. For 42 years A. & P. has operated under a family trust whose proprietors were so deliberately obscure that most of the 145,000 A. & P. employees had never seen them. Last week the death, at 92, of George Ludlum Hartford finally ended the trust. For the first time since it began as a Manhattan tea store in 1859, the giant $545 million chain and its 4,200 stores is headed entirely by a management minus...
Died. George Ludlum Hartford, 92, chairman and financial wizard behind the growth of the A. & P. stores (for their future, see BUSINESS); of uremia; in Montclair, NJ. Inheriting the company in 1915 from their father, George Huntington Hartford, who had launched it with a small tea store on Manhattan's Vesey Street in 1859, George L. and brother John spread its power across the country, slashed prices by mass buying, produced their own products. "Mr. George," as he was known to company employees, anticipated the 1929 crash, signed store leases on a yearly basis only...