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Chicken Feed. Ruddy Tongg, 44, has been a scrapper all his life. The son of a plantation laborer, Ruddy earned his way through the University of Hawaii by working as a cannery yardboy and cook, and tending chickens on the university poultry farm...
...cost 20? a lb., prime rib roasts 15? a lb., chickens and lobsters 30? apiece. Excellent Haitian coffee was 12? a lb., sugar 6¢:, and there was no limit on anything. As a matter of course, an American household was staffed by five competent servants-houseboy, cook, maid, yardboy and laundress. Total monthly wages: around...
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