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...wallet demand food that is at once exotic and inexpensive, the answer is Chinatown. From plush oriental trappings, reminiscent of a tong-war movie, to a chrome and linoleum decor, Chinese restaurants provide all setting for your meal. Prices are standard, staggered between $1.50 and two dollars, and the menus vary little between the different places...
...name for himself that he became an economist for the University of Idaho's extension service at the age of 30. He helped boost the new Idaho Cooperative Council; as its executive secretary, he was behind a publicity campaign that helped put Idaho baked potatoes on restaurant menus all over the U.S. Benson caught the eye of others in the farm-cooperative movement, in 1939 was offered a Washington job (at $25,000 a year) as executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, an organization of 53 farm groups. He took the job on one condition-that...
...Sanka, a piece of toast) in bed. Because of a cold (she had been sniffling for a month, ventured outdoors for the first time since Christmas when she left New York for the inauguration), the First Lady relaxed upstairs all morning, read mail, conferred briefly over menus and household matters with Major-Domo Howell Crim, had a quiet chat with John and Barbara Eisenhower...
...classroom at little Claremont (Calif.) College one morning last week, a professor solemnly stood up before his class, threw his coat over his arm and, pretending to be a waiter, started handing out menus. The professor was not trying to be funny. Nor did his students laugh, for they were taking up a highly serious matter: how to order an American lunch...
Each morning the 38 students get a stiff bout of lectures. They not only master menus ("What kind of pie is this 'assorted'?" asked one student), but also timetables, train tickets, how to tip, how to type. They learn to foxtrot, travel by bus, use a Bendix and electric iron...