Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addicted" his legs (raised & lowered them sideways), creating great swirls of water. A swim and a walk in four feet of water unsupported by brace, crutch or attendant, are included in his daily 45 minutes of underwater calisthenics, or hydrogymnastics "Vastly improved," commented Physiotherapist Helen Lauer. With braces and cane and leaning upon someone's arm, Governor Roosevelt now can take short promenades...
...stubborn, debilitating form of diarrhea called celiac disease. It is most common in children under 5. They cannot digest sugars, starches or fats. Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas of Manhattan found that ripe bananas, for some not fully understood reason, have the power to break up starches and convert cane sugar into more easily tolerated fruit sugar. With carbohydrate (sugar, starch) assimilation taken care of, digestion of fats takes care of itself. Ripe bananas contain all the essential vitamins, except bone-forming D. For times & places where ripe bananas are not available, there are now available preparations of dried, powdered banana...
...That for your work," said Mr. Kingsbury, sweeping all of Mr. Fleishhacker's papers to the floor. Whereupon the burly banker arose with a yell, grabbed a cane and, hatless, chased the President of Standard Oil out of the bank and down the street...
...patented machinery. Tall, gaunt, he spent the War years working in a shipyard. The ship company tried to persuade him to stay with them but he was loyal to piston rings and returned to Hagerstown. He is sensitive about his blindness, walks alone to work each day without a cane and often goes for a stroll through the factory...
...quicklime in a lime-sand mortar mix they add 6 Ib. sugar. The sugared mortar is 60% stronger than ordinary mortar. Sugar last week sold at 4½? per Ib. wholesale. The two sugar investigators also perfected commercial methods of making citric and oxalic acids from cane sugar. They have also made sucrose octa-acetate and sucrose benzoate, which are valuable in certain kinds of lacquers and adhesives and in the manufacture of paper. Sluggish Gasoline. There is a gasoline "which under ordinary conditions will burn only with a wick as kerosene does, but which in spite of this...