Word: brew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archives of Internal Medicine they told how they stir up a witches' broth containing all the essential amino acids (ammonia-containing compounds from which proteins are built), dextrose sugar, salt, gelatin, emulsified cottonseed or corn oil, water. This brew is fed in varying amounts, depending on how many calories are needed. Vitamins are given separately. Though some patients claim the stuff disagrees with them, it is actually so digestible that patients can be fed at night without waking them up. (The stomach tube stays in place day & night...
...more Brewster planes after July 1. It explained that it was cutting back fighter production $180,000,000, mainly because attrition had been only one-third as great as anticipated. Brewster was the last to get into Corsair production, produced feebly, and now bore the brunt of the cut. Brew ster also became the first U.S. planemaker to have all its war work suddenly ended...
Apparently war, like nature, may sometimes imitate art. While browsing through British Admiralty files for historical background on the self-propelled two-man torpedo, I came across this 1912 cartoon. Alsop's Ale (the hero's fuel) was Britain's favorite brew in 1912-as well known as Bass is today. The resemblance between Cartoonist Quick's conception and the real two-man article of today (TIME, May 1) is uncanny...
...thought that war could be stopped. Their propaganda appealed to a war-sick nation. That propaganda was still going strong in 1940. "World Peace-ways Inc." spread its poster ads through the U.S. press: pictures of a maimed veteran captioned "Hello, Sucker," of a chemist bending over a fiendish brew...
Rumormongers tried to brew more bitter tea between Giraud and General Charles de Gaulle. The facts: Giraud-De Gaulle relationships improved daily. During Giraud's visit, one gay, demonstrative crowd greeted him with cheers of "Vive Giraud!" Giraud silenced them, cried: "There are two generals at the head of the French National Committee, General de Gaulle and myself. Now, with me-'Vive De Gaulle!'" The Corsican crowd cheered...