Word: glue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took an awful long time. I soon learned to think of color more or less objectively so that I could paint a green tree red without batting an eye. Purple or green faces didn't bother me at all, and I even learned to sew buttons and glue excelsior on the canvas without feeling any sense of guilt...
...these items would be available in any quantity before Christmas, but the words rolled on the tongue like bubble sum. Some U.S. citizens even enjoyed knowing that there were no more restrictions on cotton linters, natural resins, green bone glue, horse mane hair and an insecticide named pyrethrum...
...what Butch forgot was that most big packers do not make profits from meat sales alone, but from the sale of byproducts (fertilizers, soap, glue), which the Mayor was unable to include. Small packers, who must depend mainly on meat sales, applauded Butch to the echo...
...losing money in the price squeeze, losses which are not made up by the Government's subsidy. Something should be done for them.* But the others, notably the Big Four (Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy) are making up losses on meat through the sale of byproducts, tallow, glue...
...world's brightest diplomatic stars, Turkey's Foreign Minister Numan Rifat Menemencioglu (pronounced approximately many-men'-chaw-glue), went into eclipse last week. The latest play in Turkey's shrewd neutrality game, which he had managed skillfully since 1942, forced him to retire...