Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt. Upstairs is his den, lined with volumes of Texas history. The Rayburns live well: breakfasts of ham & eggs, biscuits and honey; lunches and dinners of fried chicken or steak, great slices of cold tomatoes and sliced Bermuda onions, cornbread and homemade jelly, and homemade ice cream cranked out in an old-fashioned freezer by Bobby, the colored cook. The steaks are from Rayburn cattle, straight from the frozen-food locker in Bonham...
...colleague Dr. Wendell M. Stanley had advanced the theory that one virus (tobacco mosaic) was a giant protein molecule which, contrary to the usual behavior of molecules, can reproduce itself within living cells. To prove this theory, Dr. Lauffer used a high-speed whirling machine that works like a cream separator. He whirled a solution of tobacco mosaic protein, to separate the protein molecules from the rest of the solution (and presumably from the virus, if that was an independent substance...
...Grant) who dodges the draft and helps out with war relief in the shameless course of melting down an ice-cube heiress (Laraine Day) into giving him a gambling concession at a relief ball. Lucky's war-relief plan is simple: to cheat Manhattan's social heavy cream out of its white ties and rhinestones. But as time wears on, Gambler Grant, who is of Greek extraction, develops a tender conscience as a result of the courage of his compatriots and his love for eager Heiress Day. So he heroically double-crosses his pals, recovers from a consequent...
...eyebrows were raised last week: the boom in sustaining programs, the wallflowers of the industry, kept right on booming. For the 21st time this year a sponsor gave the nod to a sustainer: from now on Let's Pretend, a CBS sustainer for 13 years, will pretend for Cream of Wheat...
...military problem that is now engaging some of the best minds in & out of the services (TIME, June 21). But its financier and sponsor-a big, blond, 38-year-old bachelor named George Gallowhur-is by now the hero of a little business career as American as ice cream...