Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest W. McFarland of Florence, Ariz., who beat Polysyllababbler Henry Fountain Ashurst to the Democratic nomination, is 45, ruddy, big-fisted, almost 6 ft., 180 lb., sober of habit, awkward but sincere in oratory. A county judge, he drawls, rides well, owns several farms and believes Communists should not vote...
Since then over 600 commercial products have borne his name, including dolls, jewelry, fountain pens, wallpaper, soap, and 90 cinema shorts have featured him. For three years Segar's sailor, who derives his prodigious strength from spinach, advertised Wheatena, then Popsicles, on the air. In 1935 Popeye paid Artist Segar $100,000 a year...
Ninety-five percent of Billings and Stover's business is professional prescription work. Mr. Mahoney considers his soda, cigarettes, and candy supply only a necessary evil. There aren't any swivel-stools in front of the soda fountain. But business along that line is good enough to warrent the presence of two great barrels of Coca-Cola syrup among the "reserves supplies" down cellar...
...sand. The capsule, a cartridge seven and a half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal, building materials, synthetic plastics, seeds; dictionaries, language texts, magazines (TIME among them), other written records on microfilm...
...Washington. This year he did not even bother to go back and campaign in the primary. Few, least of all Ashurst, thought this indifference would make any difference. But last week, when the primary poll was counted, the curtain was rung down on the long Senatorial career of Henry Fountain Ashurst...