Word: canning
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Against a strong Oral Roberts quintet, Silver was devastating, canning 38 points and ripping off 19 rebounds. But later in the season in a decisive weekend against Penn and Princeton. Silver could only manage 6 points and 5 rebounds in a Harvard double dip that dropped the Crimson from Ivy contention...
...colonial virtues of "use it up, wear it out; make it do, or do without" are back in style. Metalworking, canning, weaving and bread baking are becoming the sober and necessary pursuits of the common citizen...
...mail-order seed houses in the world, has increased sales of vegetable seeds at least 20%, and is running short of certain varieties of beans and peas. Makers of garden tools and other equipment also are prospering. Ball Corp. of Muncie, Ind., maker of Mason jars and other home-canning equipment, raised its home-canning sales 46% last year to a total of $21 million, and expects to equal if not exceed that volume this year...
...cost of canned goods is all but certain to zoom. Canners started the processing season this summer with inventories at their lowest ebb in 20 years -vegetable items totaled 23 million cases, down from 50 million in 1970. With this year's vegetable-and fruit-canning season almost over, the National Canners Association reports that although there were supply increases, they fell below amounts considered minimal to meet demand. Peaches, apricots, apple products, tomatoes, peas and some varieties of corn will all be short and more expensive...
...Thursday, the commander-inchief--who just one week before had asserted his authority in canning two of his most trusted subordinates--called a worldwide "precautionary alert" of American troops...