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...symbol of hope to Frenchmen. The graceful, cream-tinted building off the Place de la Concorde shone brighter every day. Its gardens behind the high iron railings were always carefully manicured. Every window was clean and glistening. Inside, every inkwell was full, every desk tidy, no pastepot gooey...
...return Salesman Eric got a heavy dose of Russian sales technique. Workers at the Red October candy factory gave him huge, fancy ribbon-tied boxes of chocolates. Pastry cooks gave him gooey cakes. Soviet bigwigs showered him with teas, dinners, parties, promised him a rare, general's-eye-view of the front. By week's end healthy, energetic Johnston had abandoned his announced firm policy of refusing all drinks "on doctor's orders." At a luncheon on a collective fur farm he drank toasts in vodka, an hour later began yelling "Whoo...
...layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that is already muddy. It is most effective in heavy clay that usually becomes gooey when...
...that they cannot even feed themselves, must be crammed by workers. Their fantastic defense mechanism is designed solely for use against their chief enemy, ants. The soldiers' enlarged heads (see cut, p. 38) contain glands which produce a viscous chemical. Some times it is squirted forth in a gooey stream which entangles the attackers, and some times confuses and repels them by its odor...
...chickens consume more vitamin D than the U.S. citizenry, Du Pont has developed a synthetic product to replace the cod-liver oil formerly imported and fed to poultry. Made from sterols (solid alcohols) extracted from animal fats and irradiated with ultraviolet light, it is conveniently dry rather than gooey, like fish oils. Poultrymen last year spent thousands of dollars for vitamin D products to insure strong-shelled eggs, high hatching rates, low mortality...