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Gluckstein boasted that "we have a know-how on this frozen-food business that the Americans haven't got." At least he had variety, 189 items from tomato soup to chicken supreme and mousse. And with new tea and coffee plants opening up in South Africa and Canada, Lyons could well be confident-on the strength of food, if not Frood-of becoming greater than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPRATIONS: Frood for Lyonch | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

James Caesar Petrillo cannot see germs, at least not very well, but they do not fool him. He knows there are armies of them all around him : hairy ones with mil lions of eyes, wiggly ones with transparent heads, sloppy ones shaped like tomato sur prises, stiff ones which look like piccolos in aspic. He never forgets that they are coming at him, morning, noon & night. But he is not intimidated. He fights them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Pied Piper of Chi | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Anyone who wanted to dance could foot it to music by the red-coated U.S. Marine Corps band. The thirsty had to choose between tomato juice and two kinds of fruit punch (both non-alcoholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Two-Party System | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...Chicago, much-debated Soprano Kirsten Flagstad (did-she-or-did-she-not-collaborate?) made her postwar operatic debut in Tristan und Isolde, sang them into the aisles, got a blizzard of bravos and cheers, eleven curtain calls, not a tomato from audience or critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...International Airways, Inc., had provided few comforts for her nonscheduled flight to Baltimore. She carried 62 passengers and seven crew members-one of the biggest human cargoes ever crammed into a transatlantic airplane. After a night in the air, the complaints grew. The steward served nothing but orange or tomato juice for breakfast, told passengers tartly that he "had other things to do beside cook food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Broomstick at the Mast | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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