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...single-minded in their effort to help the food saving plan would be the devious execution of the program by University officials closely connected with the dining halls. Showing no conception of the spirit of the campaign, they have included more costly, and sometimes superfluous fruit to substitute for salad at dessertless meals, and have absurdly insisted on offering margarine and jam when there is no bread. In contrast, higher administrative officials for the most part have cooperated to the fullest and have turned over to the Food Relief Committee the $2400 estimated in advance to be the dollar value...
...evening he went off to the kind of party he likes best. In the informal, off-the-record atmosphere of the Hard-rock Club,* gregarious Harry Truman could let down his hair, stow away a man-sized meal of steak, asparagus, salad and scalloped potatoes, play poker until midnight. The big (but not very big) loser: Harry Truman...
...will much of the economic life of the Empire grow stronger or weaker. Through more than 400 subsidiaries operating more than 800 factories in 37 countries (notable exception: Soviet Russia), Unilever dominates the world's soap and margarine businesses. It also sells ice cream, baby food, rubber, cocoa, salad oil, lye, paper, candles, copra, perfume, toothpaste, vitamins, fish, silks, cattle cake, fertilizer...
...Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest's Town Park an American could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
...cigar's sickness ... a gas inspector is like an insect on a salad. . . . Your wife "will have hair as white as sugar and her ears will be unpaid bills - unpaid because you are dead...