Word: caking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carole Landis, lush, blond cinemactress whose ambition is to graduate from cheese cake pictures to Bette Davis roles, played the outraged woman in an offset drama...
...whose stockpile of natural rubber is down to a scant 100,000 tons, got good news from Wallace Ellwood Cake, U.S. Rubber Co. official. He arrived in Manhattan from Sumatra, where he had been a Jap prisoner, with a first-hand report on Far Eastern rubber. Said Cake: 1) the Far East has 250,000 tons of rubber ready to ship; 2) production next year may reach 550,000 tons...
More serious loss to plantation owners is the labor needed to produce the prewar peak of 1.3 million tons. The Japs rounded up thousands of natives, sent them into Burma to build airstrips and military roads. More than half, said Cake, are believed to have died from ill-treatment. He estimated that it would take three to five years to get production back to normal...
Back to Horses. With most of this, truckers would agree. But Keeshin was trying to eat his cake and have it too. Back in the '30s, he had joined other truckers in getting federal rate regulation, squeezing out small, cut-rate truckers. It had helped so well that Keeshin had been able to buy the major interest in Chicago's enormously profitable race track, Sportsman's Park. Recently he had put up most of the $250,000 invested to start a new pro football team in Chicago...
Bread will no longer be rationed after Nov. 1. Cake is available again at the pâtisseries. Tobacco rations are up 50%-although the daily supply is still only five cigarets per smoker. Taxis are trickling back to the boulevards - although only holders of priority cards, such as expectant mothers and war invalids, may ride. The clothing supply is tight, particularly for men: next year there will be a new suit for every third Frenchman, an overcoat for every tenth. But soap is no longer sand-and-clay; it lathers...