Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom were an unassuming shark called Galeorhinus zyopterus and a San Francisco fish broker named T. J. ("Tano") Guaragnella. Fishermen had always considered Galeorhinus a piscivorous, tackle-snarling, bait-swallowing pest whose carcass brought only $10 a ton for fertilizer, though Chinese sometimes bought his fins for soup. But shrewd Fish Buyer Guaragnella had a hunch. Seeing a huge Galeorhinus liver, he had it tested, found it was 100 times as rich in vitamin A as cod liver...
When Guaragnella began buying soup-fin shark at $40 a ton, the fishing fleet thought he was crazy. But soon the secret was out and prices zoomed to $240, $500, $1,200 and finally, last fall, to $1,500 a ton. Fishermen went shark staring mad. With their 6,000-hook trawls and quarter-mile gill nets they hauled in as much as $3,800 a week and roared around the water fronts orie-eyed with Napa Valley...
Once the code is set up, a prime contractor translates into it the parts of his job he wants help on. The U.S. Census Bureau's Hollerith machines take this alphabet soup and turn it into a directory. Thumbing this directory to see where his machines belong, a would-be subcontractor can then write the prime contractor (whose name is also coded) for detailed plans, make a firm bid for the work...
...American Can Co., Beech-Nut, California Packing, Campbell Soup, Continental Can, Corn Products, General Foods, H. J. Heinz, Libby, McNeill & Libby, National Biscuit, Owens-Illinois Glass, Quaker Oats, Standard Brands, Swift, United Fruit...
Johannes Robin is not half scared enough. Hitler sounds crazy and dangerous, but in Robin's experience no soup is ever eaten as hot as it is cooked. What with his son Hansi a Communist, and his son Freddi a Social Democrat, the family is splitting up badly, to his sorrow; but he has his crafty reasons to feel that he has protectors among the Nazis, and in all their conflicting camps. At length, of course, he is framed, robbed, imprisoned. He and other Jews are stuffed with strong purgatives, stripped, and forced to flog each other...