Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pewter-haired, gum-champing Ed Flynn started it. Said he: ". . . No misfortune except a major military defeat could befall this country to the extent involved in the election of a Congress hostile to the President. ... It is now plain that the Republican Party is not so much interested in winning the war as ... in controlling the House of Representatives...
...three concoctions endorsed by Hauser-"Slim" (containing the harmful drugs senna, bladderwrack, buckthorn bark), "Correcol" (consisting of weeds and gum), and Hauser Potassium Broth (a mixture of alfalfa, okra. beet tops, etc.)-were seized and declared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to be "misbranded and sold under false and fraudulent claims...
...Japanese were as mad as little boys who had been denied sticks of bubble gum. They had hoped to get the strategic French islands of the Pacific-especially New Caledonia, which might soon prove to be a vital base in the flanking of Australia-as easily as they had got Vichyated French Indo-China. But Free France, in the person of an admiral who is also a friar, denied them that pleasure last week...
Determined to have their gum and bubble it too, the Japanese warned the Admiral to look for trouble. Warned Tokyo's Japan Times and Advertiser: "Japan will not hesitate for a moment to resort to force to stamp out De Gaullists in the Pacific...
...form of a 13-second "singing spot" transcription, the first of these commercials will come at 4:45 o'clock, on the daily "Swing Out" program. The contract runs for 13 weeks, and is sponsored by the Beech-Nut chewing gum concern...