Word: chews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer to talk turkey came from Big Steel's President, Benjamin F. Fairless, as Western steel users prepared to meet this week in Salt Lake City to discuss the postwar fate of Western steel. In letting out the news, Fairless gave them a surprising new item to chew over. Big Steel, he said, is also ready to dicker with DPC to buy or lease the $110,000,000 steel plant at Fontana, Calif., built and operated by Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser...
...German command was plainly shaken. It was not proper that Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Army had been able to penetrate six deep belts of defense between the starting point of his offensive and Gleiwitz. It was not in the books that his Russians could so quickly chew up the ring of gun points, trenches, minefields, tank traps that circled Gleiwitz and the other heavily populated cities...
SAMUEL C. CHEW Bryn Mawr...
...Washington, D.C., the Anti-Cigarette Alliance was ecstatic. Hailing the cigaret shortage as a "golden opportunity" which it hoped would last until 1947, the Alliance offered a "simple" prescription to those who want to break themselves of the filthy habit: i) chew 5? worth of gentian root (or camomile blossoms) every time the craving strikes; 2) take ½ teaspoonful each of Rochelle salts and cream of tartar before breakfast; 3) cut out highly seasoned foods and stimulating drinks; 4) shun all smokers and smoke-filled rooms; 5) take Turkish baths; 6) think of something else. But U.S. cigaret smokers, finding...
...Bite. In the face of this situation Akron does not chew as much war work as it has bitten off. As tire-making slacked when rubber got scarce, the Big Four grabbed orders for rubber rafts, gas tanks, ammunition, etc. Goodyear even set up its own aircraft unit, now employs 24,000 turning out Corsair fighters and plane parts. This was good business as long as the synthetic rubber program floundered. But now synthetic is pouring in, and Akron is trying to turn out more heavy tires than ever before...