Word: flora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked ice-cream manufacturers hereafter to make no more than 20 varieties-ten flavors (manufacturer's choice) in each of two grades. (WPB merely said "please," issued no fiat.) Ice-cream novelties in the forms of bananas, daisies, ducks, rabbits, other flora & fauna were restricted to five varieties per month; ices and sherbets to two flavors per month. Purpose: to save containers, labor, transportation...
...bacteria are of the aciduric group, akin to the Lactobacillus acidophilus of Bulgarian buttermilk, which (some scientists think) helps un usual numbers of Balkan rustics to fill themselves full of years. Taken in liquid form, the bacterial cultures taste like chocolate syrup. They become permanently established among the intestinal flora in about a month. Cost: $2 per person...
Reap the Wild Wind (Paramount) has all that money (about $1,800,000 worth) can buy: horrendous hurricanes, sailing ships to buck them; a monster squid, brave men and bold to tackle it; a dressmaker's dream of a cotillion; flora & fauna and seascapes galore; vermilion cockatoos and great red cheeses; red-coated slaves and monkeys in the rigging; rooms, houses, towns, cities, dripping with elegance and Technicolor...
After bagging 25 Jap planes, Squadron Leader Newkirk was awarded a D.S.C. by the British Government. To his family he wrote letters describing the flora and fauna of Burma; he told of killing a seven-foot cobra in the barracks...
...flooded Broadway--culminating in this season's "Angel Street." But "Ladies" has not yet been surpassed for not only is it excellently constructed through plot and dialogue, but it is also finely executed in characterization and in use of comic relief upon a tragic theme. Anyone who saw the Flora Robson production of this play will remember it as the outstanding portrait of a murderess, her motives, and her downfall...