Word: hardtack
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...hand to look at him. After reviewing the troops he stood up in a camouflaged armored car and led them all in patriotic songs. Then, in monstrous high spirits, he strode into a troopers' canteen and, sitting on a log like the lowliest man, stuffed himself with hardtack, spaghetti, broccoli. Later he returned to his plane, pulled his flying togs over his uniform, and took...
...while Britain's tunesmiths tightened up their tom-toms, Britain's soldiers bull-doggishly continued to croon such old sweet favorites as Roses of Picardy, Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and There's A Long, Long Trail, dusted off such hardtack tidbits...
...Eskimos at Kepnuk, Alaska, found Dr. Rosebury, eat little besides fish and seal meat which are soft and rich in fats and proteins. They have no tooth decay. The Eskimos at Eek vary their fish and seal diet with hardtack. Many of them have decayed teeth. Dr. Rosebury became convinced that in hardtack he had found a food analogous to the coarse corn and rice. On his return to Columbia, he and his collaborators, Maxwell Karshan and Genevieve Foley, set to work feeding hardtack to more than a hundred rats, soon produced decayed teeth in many of them...
Last week Newport Industries, Inc., one of the two principal U. S. companies producing naval stores, reported earnings of $295,117 for 1935, as against $161,619 the year before. This indicated no 1935 boom in the sales of ships' logs, rigging or hardtack but the gradual upswing of a modern and highly unmaritime industry. Newport industries, like its only big competitor, Hercules Powder Co., sells products distilled from the pitchy roots of Southern pines. Like Hercules, it has striven throughout Depression to diversify these products and find new uses for them. But while Hercules...
...plane, undamaged by landing, had floated buoyantly. On the first morning the men exchanged Navy ribaldries while they waited for a rescue which was sure to take place within a few hours. After four days their emergency rations of beans, hardtack, dried bread, chocolate, were exhausted. A merchant steamer hove into sight, insubstantial as a silhouette cut out of blue paper. The PN9 sent up furious signals. The ship dwindled to a smoke, vanished. The airplane's radio operator picked up a message which stated that at a conference of pilots on the U. S. S. Langley it was unanimously...