Word: ibs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon every U.S. citizen will have his first wartime rationing book: a folder of 28 stamps, each good for one week's ration (probably ¾ Ib.) of sugar. Housewives will get their books at neighborhood schools; grocers will collect stamps for every sugar sale, pass them on to wholesalers in order to replenish their own supplies...
...delicate brown," to keep meat "succulent and tender." There are also plenty of suggestions for mess sergeants, who are responsible for adapting Army menus to the locales in which their troops serve. Although soldiers in their first six months of service gain an average 8 to 16 Ib., few of them are satisfied with the food that is dished up to them...
...Kearny turbine uses 310,000 Ib. of mercury (normal value: about $250.000). Widespread use of mercury in turbines, engineers are sure, will not be hindered by inadequate supplies in a peacetime world. But today all mercury in the Western Hemisphere funnels into U.S. war industries...
Last week N.B.A.F. also announced that for every pound of aluminum it fabricated twelve days ago, it now fabricates three. When the new workers are trained, N.B.A.F. will double that, produce 6,000,000 Ib. monthly...
...worst fires in Cleveland's recent history, but it took John L. Schmeller just six days to get back in production. He is executive vice president of National Bronze & Aluminum Foundry Co., whose big Laisy Avenue plant fabricated 1,000,000 Ib. of aluminum a month for U.S. warplanes, tanks, ships. One Tuesday last September, fire gutted the entire 141,000 square feet. A more thorough job ($2,000,000 worth of damage) could not have been done by mass bombing...