Snail Mail (1952); G.I. Trots; Pasta Fazool

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SNAIL MAIL

   OED and M-W both give 1983 (the first cite on Nexis).
   I had pointed out a 1978 citation, plus the title of a 1958 book.  (See ADS-L archives.)
   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 22 May 1952, pg. 22, col. 7:

   _Snail Mails_
_Leasing U. S. Postal System_
_to Private Business Urged_

(The letter-to-the-editor does not use the term, but talks about bad service--ed.)

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G. I. Trots

   The RHHDAS has 1943 "G.I. Trots" and 1943 "G.I.s" (diarrhea), but these are still useful.

3 January 1946, NYHT, pg. 12, col. 6:  The "G. I. bug" (gastro intestinal), as the girls at Smith College call the prevalent "flu" germ, hit the nice couple who run the Farm Home Food Delicatessen in Watertown, Wis.

22 February 1952, NYHT, pg. 15, col. 6:  Most tourists complain that, sooner or later, they get the "tourist disease," which in the Army was known as "G. I. trots."

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PASTA FAZOOL

   Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK has no date.  I recall seeing it in the 1940s.
   From the NYHT, 21 May 1952, pg. 16, col. 6:

_Pasta Fazool Makes Its Debut_
_At a Colony Restaurant Lunch_
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_New Ossola Product Is Introduced at Event With_
   _Mrs. Impellitteri Among Guests_
   By Clementine Paddleford
   New York's Colony Restaurant, gathering place of socialites and notables, gourmets and potentates, is not a bit too sophisticated for the pasta fazool, Italy's dish of the masses.  Pasta fazool was the honored repast at a luncheon there Monday when Mrs. Vincent Impellitteri, wife of the Mayor, and sixty food reporters of magazines, newspapers and radio were guests of the J. Ossola Co., packers of Torino food products...
(...)
   SOUP OR MAIN DISH--Pasta fazool, the traditional macaroni and bean soup, was served as a soup course, to be eaten with spoon, but so thick it could have been lifted neatly with a fork.  The Ossola recipe for this uses especially made macaroni of reduced calorie content combined with white beans, tomato paste, onions, imported Torino olive oil, butter, grated Parmesan cheese and a blending of spices.  Heat and serve to use as soup, a vegetable or a main dish.
(...)
   We have been on the telephone: Pasta Fazool sells one pound four ounces, 27 cents at the Dilbert chain, Roulston stores and King Kullen and at the Manganara Foods, Inc., 466 Ninth Ave.