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...Wilson came to Troy from New Hampshire. Brickmaker, distiller, farmer, merchant, meat packer, he waxed rich. Everybody called him Uncle Sam Wilson. When the War of 1812 began one Elbert Anderson got a contract to provision U. S. troops. Anderson arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared: "It all belongs...
...system finally got working, it performed the following typical feat: "At 8:15 one morning a telegram was received ordering [from the supply base] 4,596 tons of supplies, including 1,250,000 cans of tomatoes, 1,000,000 lb. of sugar, 600,000 cans of corn beef, 750,000 lb. of tinned hash and 150,000 lb. of dry beans. At 6:15 in the evening this colossal requisition which required 457 cars to transport was loaded...
...from not knowing how to eat wheat are the Chinese. Many miles of noodles (mien), fried, boiled, cooked with egg, chicken, beef or pork, are lifted annually by Chinese chopsticks, slithered and sucked into Chinese mouths. North of the Yangtze Kiang steamed bread (mantos), made of wheat flour, is a chief part of the diet. In Yenching University dining halls, 128 Cantonese boys eat rice, 300 Northerners eat bread, all eat noodles...
...allow the same candle to be lit twice. In 1710 he opened his shop and began dealing in delicacies. Later Fortnum & Mason added shoes to its food department, then clothes. Swiftly grew its prestige. Gladstone and Disraeli were steady customers. From Fortnum & Mason Queen Victoria ordered 250 Ib. of beef tea to be shipped to Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Queen Mary shops there regularly...
...Down with roast beef and pudding in England!" the manifesto began. "And down with sauerkraut in Germany-the most abominable of all inventions...