Word: menu
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...protect industrial plants from air raids; in Brooklyn a war-crazed British sailor danced despairingly on a high window ledge; in Manhattan and Seattle, two men killed themselves because of news; in Kirkland, Wash. a lady letter-writer noted approvingly that a coffee shop had changed "hamburger" on the menu to "liberty steak...
...Hughes Easley, wife of a disabled electrical worker in St. Louis and the mother of eight, was elected "Mrs. Unemployed American Mother." Her family food allowance: $58.85 a month. Rent allowance: $10. Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to sit next Mrs. Easley at a reliefer's dinner. The menu: 2 oz. beef stew, % carrot, 1 onion, % potato, % slice of bread, 1 pat of oleomargarine, 1 canned prune. Mrs. Roosevelt agreed that the dinner was not quite enough...
...Argentina, and points South before June has breathed its final sigh. The lucky lads and lasses, not to mention any retired school teachers who may go along, will be officially credited with a year's work in economics. But the only real reading they need do will be the menu in the nearest sidewalk cafe...
...Except for more variations on the menu, little has been done to increase the efficiency in the kitchen. In the handling of such large quantities of food there is bound to be waste, but there need not be as much as there...
...Twenty-four times the menu included fried chicken and ice cream, ten times potato salad.) He was presented with: a light fedora (to replace a beloved dark hat he left behind in Franklin, Ind. as the train pulled out without waiting for him); an oil painting (rural landscape in early U. S. calendar style) by Postmaster Maurice Goodwin's sister in Indianapolis; a mule-skinner's cane at Mule Day ceremonies in Columbia, Tenn., a women's club pin and philatelic relics of Pony Express days, and an Indian peace pipe, at St. Joseph, Mo.; a book...