Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallons of Ice-Cream...
During the past year the Freshman Union and the House Dining Halls together consumed 30,000 gallons of ice-cream. Furthermore, Westcott has ordered from various neighboring wholesalers during this season an average for each week of about seven tons of potatoes, over a ton of roast beef, a ton of lamb, and 48 crates of mushrooms...
Blood collected for the Red Cross plasma reservoir is refrigerated at 4° C. (39° Fahrenheit), shipped to laboratories where the plasma is separated from the blood cells in a centrifuge, a whirling machine that works like a cream separator. A technique very recently developed dries the plasma like powdered milk for storage as a pale yellow powder; this powder is made available for quick transfusion by mixing with sterile, triple-distilled water. The doctors in charge of the program estimate that stores of dried plasma will not deteriorate for at least five years...
...Vanillin, the flavor constituent of vanilla. Last year one-half of U.S. vanillin was synthesized from U.S. lignin, consumed by General Foods, Hershey, National Biscuit, countless numbers of ice-cream makers, the Army & Navy...
With Cook as coach and a promise of petty officer ratings for players, Great Lakes at once attracted the cream of draft-age college basketball stars. It got University of Detroit's Bob Caliban, picked for an All-America basketball team two years ago; Indiana's Ernie Andres, who set a Big Ten record in 1938 when he scored 31 points in one game; Ohio U's Frank Baumholtz, voted the most valuable player in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Invitation Tournament last year; Stanford's Forrest Anderson, All-Pacific Coast forward; Missouri...