Word: gums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuing interest to professional ethnologists, as well as to a continuing stream of travelers. ... In 1940, Corporal Gordon Gibler and I lived awhile with them to investigate some murders perpetrated on the group of half-breeds who seasonally enter their area to collect chicle, from which chewing gum is manufactured...
...said, 'Why yes, of course,' and as we parted Sir Eric said, no thanks, he didn't care for a stick of gum...
...Other suggestions for industrial crops: japan wax and lacquer from the poison oak of southern swamplands; sugar and byproducts from the neglected southwestern maple tree; storax for perfumes and flavors from the sweet gum tree; yellow dyes from the Osage orange or hedge apple...
...rescue crew came in during the broadcast, having located the crew of a plane lost in the jungle. Many kinds of supplies are parachuted to lost crews: red blankets and junk jewelry for barter with the natives; playing cards and cribbage boards; Bibles, mess kits, boots, mountain rations, chewing gum, razor blades, ciga-rets, soap, canned beer...
...moved out of his rose-carpeted office last week to a separate part of the Wrigley Building to make way for his successor, the 70-year-old ex-vice president and treasurer, James Clifton Cox, but he took with him a lot of postwar ideas about gum policy. K rations have taught him to hope for a large packaged soup-to-nuts business, from relief lunches for starving Europeans to substitutes for the dinner pails of U.S. factory workers...