Since Morrison took over the iconic, 143-year-old soup company 18 months ago, she has been pushing a three-part strategy to turnaround its cooling sales: Stabilize the soup and simple meals businesses, expand internationally, and grow faster in healthy beverages and baked snacks.

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The other is that small congregations are only ever likely to do what they are doing now: running soup kitchens and giving away old clothes.

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Though in recent decades the final traces of the grand old days of mahogany dining cars and dinner-jacketed waiters serving up turtle soup have vanished, the line still makes for an adventure worthy of any Grand Tour, particularly with your own diminutive passengers in tow.

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The old Pasteurella pestis, as we used to call it in those glorious primitive days when drugs worked, was duck soup for a half dozen anti-biotics.

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