Word: macaronies
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Under older methods, nitrocellulose (made by treating cotton or wood fibers with nitric and sulfuric acids) is forced through "macaroni" machines, chopped into grains of various sizes. This smokeless powder is necessarily handled dry in many stages of its manufacture, and in large quantities...
...Chicago was almost out of butter and lard. Also short were prepared flour, vegetable shortenings, macaroni, canned meat...
...Stores Inc. chose that peculiar name 24 years ago because no one knew what it meant and everyone wanted to know. Catering mainly to the steel industry, it now feeds 31,000 men daily at Carnegie-Illinois's Gary plant alone, concentrates on 25? carry-out lunches (spaghetti, macaroni, pork & beans, chop suey) because steel mills do not lend themselves to in-the-plant munching. It has had to turn down millions in new war business, already operates 80 branches chiefly in the Ohio-Illinois-Indiana steel belt and grosses $5,000,000-$6,000,000 a year...
...each patient's bed, fills it with lukewarm milk to which a level teaspoon of soda has been added. One end of a long, latex tube attached to the bottom of the can is swallowed by the patient. The tube, which is very soft, and scarcely larger than macaroni, is easy to swallow, does not keep the patient from sleeping, can even be used in the day time while he sits in a chair. The milk drips into his stomach constantly, its flow controlled by a screw valve...
Dainties. In London, British cooks at U.S. Army Headquarters did what they could to improvise "American dishes" for the officers, came up with items that included cream of peanut-butter soup, canned corn with syrup, macaroni salad...