Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the smooth promotional hand of Pillsbury Mills, Inc., 100 top amateur U.S. cooks competed last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in a $70,-ooo prize baking contest. With 100 electric ranges set up on the ballroom floor, the cooks-97 women and three men-donned aprons...
When the time came to hand out the $50,000 first prize, it was won by a simple roll with the fanciest name of all-the "water-rising nut twist." The winner: Mrs. Ralph E. Smafield, 32, wife of a Detroit electrical engineer. The recipe, as expected, was a family...
Second prize of $10,000 went to Miss Laura Rott of Naperville, Ill. for her mint surprise cookies; third prize of $4,000 to Mrs. R. W. Sprague of San Marino, Calif, for her Carrie's Creole chocolate cake.
For the better part of a century, London has been the world's diamond capital. There the British-dominated diamond cartel has held the famed "sights" at which it sells its uncut stones. Last year Britain re-exported ?35 million ($98 million) worth of diamonds, more than half of...
Last week the London-Tangier diamond trade, which had enabled U.S. dealers to get gems for one-sixth under their London price, received a mortal blow. In London's Clerkenwell Court, I. Hennig & Co., Ltd., one of Britain's most respected diamond merchants, was convicted of customs evasion...