Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoke-swirled office was littered with sandwich scraps, cigaret stubs and half-filled cups of cold coffee. At 5:12 a.m., two haggard, bleary men-Paul Richter, vice president of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and David Behncke, president of the Airline Pilots Association (A.F.L.), scratched weary signatures on a truce. After 25 days, the first major U.S. airline strike was over...
...Magic Sandwich. Most recent gadget is the "birefringent filter," designed in 1940 by Dr. John W. Evans of Chabot Observatory, Oakland, Calif. It is a multi-decker sandwich of thin quartz plates and sheets of polaroid, which passes only light of a single pure color. Accomplishing the same object as the spectroheliograph, it is much more effective and easier for astronomers to use. When built into a coronagraph, it lets the complexities of the sun's atmosphere be seen in all their terrifying glory...
Raytheon expects airlines to be the first big "Radarange" buyers. Quick lunch restaurants are prospects too. Radarange will grill a hamburger sandwich or a hot dog in 35 seconds. It bakes foam-light cup cakes, biscuits, or gingerbread in 29 seconds. It shuts itself off automatically...
Sunday is racing day in Santiago, and no fooling. Winter & summer, wet or dry, thousands pile out to the plebeian Hipódromo in the morning, and, pausing only for a sandwich, migrate across town to bet away the afternoon at the slightly tonier Hipico. Earlier in the present Chilean winter, when lack of rainfall slowed hydroelectric plants and forced the capital to go on daylight saving time, fans sat stoically through the 8 a.m. race in utter darkness (newspapers suggested that the ponies carry lanterns...
...following price complaints have been reported since Tuesday: Liggett's frappes, up to $.25 milkshakes, up to $.20 Mike's Club frappes, up to $.20 Bella Vista Restaurant spaghetti dinner, from $1 to $1.10 (Similar increases on other items) Hazen's grilled cheese sandwich, $.15 to $.20 College Drug Store all ice cream items...