Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully they have spooned, housewives lately have found the sugar bowl almost empty. Last week. OPA thought it had found one new reason. In Philadelphia Federal District Court, OPA charged that many U.S. sugar refineries have stopped making sugar. They have found it far more profitable to make cane syrup...
...Bracken and Veronica Lake, supplies two answers to this question. In the first place, it is a source of endless pleasure to see Bracken hanging by his finger tips from about the eightieth floor of a New York skyscraper while his hands are pounded by a drunk with a cane. The tragic outcome of the scene (Bracken doesn't fall), while anticlimactic, fails to take the edge off the prospect of his immediate and horrible death...
Mongooses are still a hotly debated subject in Hawaii. Sugar planters, who rejoice in rat-free, ungnawed cane, are pro-mongoose. Sportsmen, who have tried with indifferent success to stock the islands with ground-living game birds, are anti...
...present, the "optical cane" is heavy (9 lbs.) and cannot "see" narrow obstacles such as hanging wires. The Signal Corps intends to iron out all such comparatively minor faults before offering its invention to the blind...
After a 1,500-mile trek by dog team, Explorer Gould returned to write a book about it (Cold; Harcourt, Brace, 1931; $3.50). As a professor at Carleton for 13 years, Explorer Gould was known not only for his ties but for his bicycle, his cane, his way of poking sly fun at his classes...