Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Simla he gave $400 for one cup of tea, and when his car flattened a farmer's chicken on the road, the owner received $40 in kingly recompense. At Benares, after getting an honorary degree, His Majesty donated $10,000 to a university students' union; at Aligarh he gave $600 to his car drivers. During a few days in New Delhi, his party spent $100,000 in gift shops for gold-threaded cloth, sandalwood and ivory bric-a-brac for the wives back home...
...eleven staff members watching over 55 boys.) After breakfast and inspection, the younger boys attend classes; the older ones work about the grounds (with brief cocoa break at 11) until 11:55, break for lunch, return to a work detail until 4:25, when they knock off for tea. Evenings are devoted to metalworking, basket weaving or woodwork, with dinner at 8:10, followed by chapel and lights...
...chicken, topped off by the usual melted ice. So we ordered an iced melon, sole au vin blanc, new potatoes, endive braised, Edam cheese and toasted crackers, fresh strawberry ice, and Vienna coffee with whipped cream. This is why we were late, why I am on a diet and tea, tea, tea. Why Monteux would not hurry a fine dinner for any old banquet...
...billion bakery empire that stretches from Britain to Australia, Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston is known as the "Barnum of Bread" (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week the Barnum of Bread rose some more. In a $32 million stock deal, Weston got control of Chicago's National Tea Co., fifth biggest U.S. market chain, with 1954 sales of $520 million. He did so by purchasing 544,000 shares (27%) of National Tea stock from Director John...
Rasmussen. For his money, Weston will become the third biggest grocer on the North American continent, with $1.3 billion annual sales and 1,025 stores (712 National Tea stores, 313 in Weston's Loblaw chain) in 14 U.S. states and Canada. Only A.& P. and Safeway Stores are bigger. For Capitalist Cuneo, who bought 348,000 shares ten years ago at about $5 a share, the deal was a bonanza. By selling all but 5,000 shares at a reported price of $60 a share, Cuneo made a profit estimated at nearly $20 million...