Word: gums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulbulian takes pride in matching flesh tints, in decorating his noses with tiny pores and wrinkles. Both noses and ears are glued on with a liquid adhesive made of mastic gum dissolved in chloroform or benzene. Like false teeth, false noses and ears must be doffed at night...
...tide member producers (over 90% of production) over the industry's rehabilitation; 2) encouraged the building of central stills; 3) produced a standard product, to be marketed in uniform turpentine cans bearing the A. T. F. A. seal and pine tree symbol; 4) cut gum turpentine production 25%; 5) sought new uses for turpentine and rosin...
...also, worried last week over a rival coop, Gum Turpentine Farmers Cooperative Association, formed last year at Vidalia, Ga., by small Georgia producers, to buck the influence of factors in the A. T. F. A. Headed by mild, sandy-haired William Capers Rice, 38, mayor of Vidalia, Gum Turp. last year won an estimated $1,000,000 reduction in factorage interest rates and handling charges. It aims now to get rid of small stills dependent on factors, pool output in a central still system...
Everybody knows Elmer, the typical U. S. citizen: he likes an argument, the funny papers, chewing gum, baseball, fairs. But nobody knows Elmer better than Michael Todd. Mike is a barker, who smokes outsize cigars, wears checks, will run four concessions this season at the New York World's Fair: the Streets of Paris, Gay New Orleans, the Dancing Campus, the Old Time Opry House. Mike is a student of Elmer as some people are students of Sanskrit, art, horses. He knows how to tickle Elmer so Elmer will shower down...
Short, forceful, 40, he worked at Indusco with the nervous energy of a dye-stamping machine. He won Chinese workers by being able to tell jokes in many dialects, by adopting two Chinese sons, by repairing broken machinery with string, bamboo, chewing gum. All his work and hard travel (thousands of miles by bicycle) he endured not for personal gain but simply because he believed in China, in cooperative effort, in democracy...