Word: jars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soybean sprouts. Grown indoors in a flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...
...called the case "... a bizarre plot. ... It will sound like storybook reading, it is so fantastic." Until the four are put on trial in mid-September, the Government is jealously guarding all details of its superduper spy story. But FBI introduced a cast of characters to jar the most jaded melodrama addict. Charged with collecting information on U.S. war plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling in Budapest...
Arresting. In Ephrata, Wash., police arrested for drunkenness one Reptile Red DeHorn Jersey Bull. In Danbury, Conn., arrested for the same reason was a man who was trying to hide a watermelon under his shirt but having some difficulty, because he was already loaded with a jar of cheese spread, several ears of corn, two jars of skin lotion, some parts for an automobile brake, a can of shoe polish, a dill pickle, and a rearview mirror...
...orgy of looting. They slapped and clawed each other for owner ship of valuable and valueless things. One man clutched enough boxes of toothpicks to pick his teeth for life. Another stacked a dozen straw hats on his head. A woman juggled seven umbrellas. Two others squabbled over a jar of tomatoes, then dropped the jar as a small boy sprayed them, with a hairdresser's lotion. From the balcony of one store the looters tossed goods to carts lined up below. One driver tried to make off with a packet of under wear, used his fists in vain...
Sven Malmberg is a Swedish orchestra leader. In the blacked-out cities of Germany he played forbidden jazz to nerve-racked citizens of the Third Reich, who wanted hot music to jar them out of their depression. To questioning police. Malmberg and his audience would explain it was Belgian music. Last month Malmberg was playing in Dortmund when the British struck that city with two of the war's most devastating air raids, then cut off its water supply by blasting the Ruhr's Mohne and Eder dams. Malmberg lived through those raids and, returned to Stockholm, told...