Word: glue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Agriculture's Daniel F. J. Lynch of New Orleans announced that peanut oil now makes a good substitute for olive oil in salads, mayonnaise and for industrial uses. Peanut proteins already have a big new market in a glue for paper and wood. In Georgia, the peanut crop is already close to cotton in value, may soon pass it, may even compete with soybeans for commercial interest...
...Time was when a boiled or a poached egg was a delight; but now when hens are fed on scientific messes, a fresh boiled or poached egg is little better than a dose of glue on the stomach and the same goes for all foods which are grown not according to Nature's way but are fed on the formulae of a lot of Whitehall chemists...
Wolfers. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Lieut. George Benstock, back from a tour of duty in Canada's northland, told of a wolf trapper who lost two front teeth of his store set, substituted two wolves' teeth stuck in with glue...
...claims it will compete with the much more expensive plastics and light metals. Moreover, the process will make usable vast resources of little-used soft woods-maples, poplars, gums, etc. The impregnation process simplifies the making of veneers and plywoods, because pressed and impregnated layers of wood need no glue...
...crash of 1929 his world came unstuck. In May 1931 followed the failure of the Credit Anstalt in Austria. In September 1931 Britain herself was driven off gold. Desperately Norman tried to glue his world together. He worked with New York. He journeyed to Berlin to see Hjalmar Schacht. And steadily Montagu Norman the man became Montagu Norman the legend...