Word: gums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most valuable researches were still Steenbock's. His ultraviolet-lamp irradiation process was sold to 250 companies for enriching milk, bread, animal feed, drugs, many another edible. (The conscientious Foundation refused to let chewing gum be irradiated, on the ground that it would do gum-chewers no good...
...thick. His upper teeth were bent in. He put his thumbs behind them and tried to push them straight. They broke off in his hands. He tried the lower teeth-they came off in his hands too. He stood in the rain with a handful of wet teeth and gum. Davenport came up to him, held Lawson's head back, said: "God damn! You're really bashed open. Your whole face is pushed...
Millionaire Philip Knight Wrigley has had many radical ideas since he inherited his father's gum and baseball empire in 1932. He popularized Ladies' Day at big-league ball parks. He introduced sticks of gum to U.S. Army combat rations. For $185,000 he bought Dizzy Dean after his best pitching days were over. Last week P. K. Wrigley unwrapped his latest idea: a professional softball league for women...
This sailing was unlike those that had gone before. Grey-uniformed Red Cross workers, long prohibited by security requirements from attending troop embarkations, now passed out doughnuts and coffee, candy and chewing gum. On the piers bands were playing-for the first time in World War II-and the troops broke into thankful grins...
...WAVES with a Brownie, taking pictures down by the River, wandered into the Weld Beat Club and asked if they might shove off to sea in a shell. Mr. Dennison, crew instructor, suggested that they consult their own athletic instructor about arrangements. They did, and now at regular gum hours those who certify that they can swim 100 yards and "hereby take the responsibility for my life in my own hands" realize the happy ambition of every WAVE to get off of dry land...