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Also: "Grind to a powder the seed of the carpenter plant, the gum resin of the markazi plant, and thyme, then dissolve it in beer and let the man drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kushumma & Kushippu | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

With the pinkish hydraulic fluid spurting in our faces-and with no salad oil aboard to refill the draining hydraulic system-we stopped the leaks with chewing gum, reinforcing our handiwork with Band-Aids from the medical kits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...find lunchrooms, restaurants, buffets, post offices, savings-bank branches, theater-ticket offices, and rest rooms for mothers and children in Upper Row. It sounded very much like capitalistic Macy's in New York, except that it will all be state run, of course, by a giant outfit called GUM (Government Universal Stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: GUM for Consumers | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...finally made it to Williamsport last week. A few days later, after six teams had been eliminated, the two surviving clubs met in a final game for the world championship. Some 8,500 hoarse fans, burning with World Series fever, ignored such distractions as one catcher's bubble gum continually ballooning out through his mask. Between pitches, his battery mate ballooned back. That was natural enough. This was the annual finale of the Little League, limited to boys of eight to twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big-Time Little League | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...Reichhold has branched out into other fields. A few years ago he went into the manufacture of bonding resins (for plywood, plastics, foundry cores). His chemicals go into refrigerators, glass wool, food boxes, bubble gum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEMICALS: The Little Giant | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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