Word: gums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provide for every ship and base fuel, food, shells, radios, detecting equipment, chewing gum, bosun's pipes-everything for existence, everything for fighting. (To insure deliveries Calhoun commands fighting ships assigned to escort convoys...
...shadow comes from is an art problem that plain observers are left to guess. McKnight Kauffer's abstract Steel! Not Bread poster (see cut} would probably confuse even sophisticated observers. Illustrator Jean Carlu's mechanistic Give 'Em Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing-gum art, minus the latter's peppermint flavor. Workers in five New Jersey plants on whom it was tested came up with the conclusion that Illustrator Carlu meant to depict the FBI's fight against crime. They mistook the riveter for a gangster...
...judge, was doing K.P. duty in the Army reserve camp at Plattsburg the day he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War. In Washington he got an equally messy job: channeling the Army's swollen, muddied procurement program. He went to work in shirt sleeves, vest dangling, jaws chomping gum, his right arm working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also knocked over blank walls. He won permission for field ordnance officers...
...dark, bird-faced man of solitary habits, he works today in a small studio near Chicago's busy North State Street, undisturbed by the groaning and rumbling of a neighboring trolley line. One of his favorite mediums is gouache, a mixture of opaque colors with gum arable and water, which gives his paintings a subdued, somewhat chalky finish. He likes to play the guitar in solitude and speculate quietly about what he calls "the wonderful mysteriousness of life...
...candy and chewing gum were spiked with synthetic vitamin K, U.S. dentists might have to go out of business: tooth cavities, which afflict 95% of the U.S. population, might be prevented. So claimed Chemist Leonard Samuel Fosdick* & colleagues of Northwestern University in a preliminary report in Science last week. Vitamin K, found naturally in alfalfa, hog liver, cabbage, tomatoes and possibly in unrefined sugar, is valuable for its properties as a blood-clotter, especially in hemorrhages of newborn infants. When taken into the mouth, Dr. Fosdick discovered, vitamin K serves another function-it prevents sugars from turning into tooth-corroding...