Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had been caught, despite warnings over & over again from the Army and the State Department, in Japan, North China, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, French Indo-China. They had been interned for as long as 21 months, living on wormy rice, fish and greasy soup-and hope. They had lost some weight (average only 15 lb.) and most of their worldly good's. They had also lost their identity...
...phone jangled in the Pennsylvania farmhouse at 2 a.m. A sleepy man answered it, snapped wide awake. The Navy needed more bean soup. Soon, from a nearby factory, a truck loaded with big black cans rolled out, sped to the Philadelphia airport. The cans were hustled into a plane, flown to San Francisco, then on to Pearl Harbor. There they were dumped into a waiting boat. It chuffed out to sea, met a ship that had been burning for three days. The cans were tossed to the exhausted crew. Quickly, the bean soup in the big black cans snuffed...
Since World War II began, such emergencies have become routine for Philadelphia's National Foam System, Inc. Its stocky, energetic president, Fisher Longstreth Boyd, 57, rolls out of bed in the bleaker hours like any fireman to dispatch his fire-fighting foam, which the Navy calls "bean soup," to fight fires around the globe...
Promptly, National Foam broke ground for a new plant outside Philadelphia, turned out its first batch of bean soup seven weeks later. The Navy piled on orders. It put a generous supply aboard its fighting ships and stockpiled it all over the world. In one Pacific sea fight 118 warship fires were reportedly snuffed out by foam. And Foam's gross fizzed up from less than $500,000 into $6.000,000 this year...
...Bleeck's Artists & Writers Restaurant on Manhattan's 40th Street, one Henry George consumed at a sitting "six dozen Cotuit oysters, a two-quart tureen of mock turtle soup, a roast . . . weighing just under six pounds, four steak . . . slabs of cold Virginia ham, a dozen scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella...