Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spinach was being dumped, left to rot, forecasting what will come when seasonal fresh vegetables, abetted by thousands of Victory gardens, glut the market. The outlook for commercial canners is gloomy. Reported the American Institute of Food Distribution in Manhattan: canneries, unable to get help with the low pay the wage freeze caught them with, have closed in Maryland, Texas, Indiana and New York. Canneries in Washington, Oregon and many another state are threatening to close...
...plastic bags resembling hot-water bottles. Sea water is mixed with one of the chemicals in the first bag, which converts the salts in the water into other compounds. These are then precipitated by another chemical and filtered out in the second and third bags. The final product: clear, fresh, slightly sulfuric water...
...rigorous physical examination that is routine for all naval officers going on sea duty (there are no "limited service" chaplains). They must have had four years of college, three of seminary work. Age limits are 21-50. Unlike the Army, the Navy requires no parochial experience, will take men fresh from the seminary. The youngsters get a stiff three months' course, the others, eight weeks...
Into Washington this week trooped the delegates fresh from the United Nations Food Conference at Hot Springs...
...Fresh proof of their usefulness came from Allied Headquarters last week with the announcement that Staff Sergeant Grady Gaston, of Frisco City,Ala. was recovering after wandering in the wild bush country for 111 days. Gaston was one of the crewmen who bailed out of a U.S. Liberator bomber in a blinding storm on Dec. 1. Three officers with him died in the jungle ; Gaston was saved when a native found him on March...