Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miss the Gardens all right," a Herbarium staff member said, "but they left us this building and a bit of the land around it. The Herbarium will continue our work won't be interrupted...
...Office veterans run the unliquidated portions of the empire. Whenever it tried to make socialists shoulder the white man's burden, something had gone wrong. Out under the never-setting sun, one of the socialist governors turned more blimpish than Colonel Blimp. Another took his socialist mission a bit too seriously. The latter was Oliver Ridsdale, Earl Baldwin, the socialist son of the late Stanley Baldwin...
...York Daily News had good reason to sniff a new trend; its massive circulation was slipping a bit. The News was still the biggest U.S. paper (2,175,000 daily, 4,500,000 Sunday). But some of its boldness, impudence and razor-keen sense of what the public wanted had died in 1946 with Founder Joe Patterson. To some longtime News readers, it seemed as though the paper had lost the exact formula for Patterson's magic elixir, and was trying to concoct a substitute. Manhattan newshounds speculated that the editors were even poring over old files in search...
...current Engineering and Science Monthly, a Caltech flavor chemist, Hoiland-born Dr. Arie J. Haagen-Smit, tells how he vacuum-distilled 6,000 pounds of pineapples and ended up with a few grams of powerful pineapple essence. He took the essence apart bit by bit, identifying microscopic amounts of flavor-giving compounds. Then he mixed a cocktail of the chemicals he had spotted. The result was a "satisfactory reproduction" of fresh pineapple smell...
...beef which had brought a top price of $41.60 a hundredweight last summer were offered for as low as $25, only $6.25 above OPA levels. Hogs slumped $1 to $20.50, lowest since October 1946. But at the start of this week, both livestock and grains firmed up a bit...