Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey. At Pennsville, N.J., some 26 finalists prepared to jam large pink lumps of bubble gum into their mouths and see-for the prize of a U.S. Savings Bond-who can blow the biggest bubble. They have two minutes to do it in, plus an initial ten seconds to get the chew started. The "world championship" contest was designed to help promote the bubble gum industry, a $20 million a year business. Philadelphia alone exports each week 25 tons of gum to Japan, the Philippines, Italy, Hawaii-places which during World War II felt the cultural impact...
...Just enough of enervating, voluptuous heat-and just enough breeze to fill the wings of the zephyrs-and just enough sunshine to reflect a sparkle in the eyes of beautiful women-and just enough people . . . on the pave to make one continued, ceaseless, devilish, provoking, delicious, glorious jam!" Thus ecstatically did young (22) Editor Walt Whitman of Manhattan's daily Aurora (circ. 5,000) sing the praises of New York in the spring of 1842. It was a notable newspaper era. Besides Whitman's Aurora, New York City boasted 15 other daily, six Saturday and five Sunday newspapers...
...about $200 million. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, onetime U.S. ambassador to Moscow, guaranteed that Russian satellites would be a "most fertile field," with some 4,000,000 Soviet radios also within reach, and an average of seven listeners to each set. Russia's frenzied efforts to jam Voice of America broadcasts, he added, were proof of the Voice's effectiveness...
...milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses' (soya bean sludge and near nougat). A specialty of the maison is the 'Merrie England' full cream hot milk shake (boiled soya stock with vanilla-flavored export-reject whitewash...
Another trick, says Herrick, is to broadcast the important news slowly (ten-to-twelve words a minute) in International Code. A great many Russians, Herrick believes, learned to receive code during the war. The jammers try to block this, too, but code is harder to jam than voice transmission...