Word: gums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early to Rise. At 7:15 next morning-45 minutes before breakfast-the President strolled out of the hotel. The lines of fatigue had vanished from his face. He was chewing gum. He did what most visitors to a small town do when there is nothing else to do: he walked down to the railroad station. Then he went on down to the Mississippi River bank and performed the local rite of spitting in it. He dropped in at the telegraph office. He met a friend, the postmaster, and talked crops and swapped gossip with...
...Periston," a German-concocted synthetic chemical, was mixed with water and used by the Nazis as a blood plasma substitute. Periston resembles gelatin and gum acacia (sometimes used for the same purpose) but is safer than either - so say the Germans, who gave more than 200,000 treatments "with practically no reactions...
...radioactive materials formed by the explosion of an atomic bomb. It shows a woman's rayon purse stuffed with feminine necessaries: keys, coins, a bobby pin and a bottle of nail polish. The metal clasp is clearly visible. The semi-transparent oblong below is a package of chewing gum. The picture was made by placing the purse on a sheet of ordinary photographic film. On top of the purse were placed pieces of twisted steel and several bits of fused earth from the site of the famous bomb test in New Mexico. Their radiation (probably gamma rays) penetrated...
...about that gum, Britain's Lord Keynes was in Washington, after talks in Ottawa on Britain's immediate credit position, which is so tight that her businessmen cannot properly get going on reconversion. His Washington mission dealt with a tougher, longer-range problem...
...gave him some of the American chewing gum he asked for and asked him why he wasn't in school. "School? Oh, I'm on the morning shift now, and besides, the Americans took our school and I have to go to another one very far away, and anyhow I am busy." At that point we came to the mess and as I had to go in if I were going to get anything to eat, I left him with an invitation to come...