Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lotus to discuss Korea's future. In buildings all over the city, shivering workmen sigh with relief as glass windows go in for the first time in three years. By night, streets are alight with candles as Koreans, with small trays mounted on wooden tripods, offer candy, chewing gum, apples and cigarettes. Said one U.S. economist on the scene: 'It looks to me as if one half of the Koreans are trying to sell bubble gum and candy to the other half...
Busy Presses. After the ravages of more than three years of war, it will take more than candy, bubble gum and "al kine camera bag" to supply a decent living standard for South Korea's 22 million people. In three years, 600,000 homes have been destroyed; because of a high birth rate and the influx of tens of thousands of refugees, 900,000 new or rebuilt houses are needed. Coal production is down 50% from prewar. Grain output, the core of Korea's economy, is off from 3,500,000 tons...
...somewhat sacrilegious" American Dream, writes Barzini, is that all man's problems can be solved by intelligence and industry. When things go wrong, at home or abroad, Americans are like "the man who has dropped a penny in the slot machine and did not get either his chewing gum or his money back . . . He fumes, shakes, punches and curses . . . Americans [think that] if you put the right amount of money in the right place ... if you sign carefully worded contracts . . . you must always get satisfactory results. When history does not deliver the gum . . . when injustice prevails . . . Americans are eternally...
...There is still no scientific evidence that fancy ingredients in tooth paste, tooth powder, mouth washes or chewing gum will keep teeth from decaying, the American Dental Association declared. Its annual convention (in Cleveland) berated dentifrice advertisers for false claims, also took a swipe at soft-drink peddlers for pretending that their concoctions don't harm teeth. The association's rules for dental health: use less sugar, brush teeth regularly with any powder or paste that helps the brush to clean them...
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...