Word: agar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Direct leakage of food is not an important issue. Indirect benefits to Germany are enormous. According to William Agar of Columbia "ten shiploads of wheat, say 50,000 tons, would release about 187,000 tons of potatoes, from which the Germans could make 17,000 tons of alcohol . . . enough fuel for 500 planes to raid London nightly for two months...
...malaria microbe stained and swollen with purple agar-agar...
Presenting the argument for intervention in the war, Herbert S. Agar, author and columnist and editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, will speak on "Is England's War Our War?" in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight...
...Agar lived in England from 1928 to 1934, serving as the literary editor of the English Review, foreign correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal, and, for part of the time, attache of the American Embassy in London. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winner "The People's Choice," "The Land of the Free," and "The Pursuit of Happiness...
That has lately become the constant refrain of many another of this country's progressives. From Herbert Agar on alphabetically down the list, they have proclaimed-with Harvard's most distinguished son-that the Fight for Freedom "must and will" be fought simultaneously on two fronts: abroad against soul-cramping fascism, at home against poverty and reaction. This war, they urge, is not a barrier against social progress, but a path to it. Paraphrasing Herbert Croly, they hail the Promise of American Strife...