Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Macaroni moves slowly because tomato sauce and cheese are difficult to get; pancake-mix stays on the shelf when the butter supply is tight. Jello is in demand as a substitute for canned fruits. Unrationed relishes and pickles outsell rationed catsup. Since working women have less time and inclination to bake, sales of extracts and baking powder have slumped. Dog food, originally the No. 1 U.S. seller in cans, has fallen off 50%. (Dogs do not like the dehydrated products...
...ranks as "one of the boys," time having convinced him that SOP aboard the Portland Rose is not, after all, an overly responsible position . . . With the arrival of 180 Apprentice Seamen Monday morning, we can expect a little new energy and a more clear explanation for the room mix-ups of the past two weeks. Coming directly from nearly 100 V-12 schools all over the country, these boys, after their commissioning as midshipmen on Tuesday, will have had less indoctrination in Navy procedure than any previous midshipman class. Perhaps a general dissemination of the old Pearson, Bruns, and Cave...
There was not much room in the crowded, pencil-thin 6-25 to lay the wounded man down. There was less room to mix the dried, tan-colored plasma with distilled water, to set' up the bottle and insert the rubber tube in the wounded man's arm. But Co-Pilot August Mirzaoff and Engineer R. V. Smith Jr. remembered their lessons. Slowly life began to return to Doyle's deathly-pale face. By the time the 6-25 reached a base he was much stronger, was pronounced a sure shot for recovery...
...museum figures of "Mission to Moscow" lost any interest that they might ever have had. "The North Star" presents the Hollywood horse opera dressed in new costumes. It's still the story of peaceful, happy Red Gulch taken over by bad hombres, and the finish is pure Tom Mix. All this despite the fact that supposedly gutty and loftist Lillian Hollman wrote the script. The problem is simple. No matter what a picture is about, it must be good as a moving picture, and no tagging on of Russian names is going to help much...
...State Department last week was trying desperately to mix fats & oils with high politics, and having a greasy time...