Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first meatless Wednesday this week came the news that the Union Government had decided to go into the manufacture of the new yeast-food (TIME, Aug. 9) in a big way. The Natal sugar industry, which annually dumps 130,000 tons of unwanted molasses into the Indian Ocean, will use this by-product for the production of Torula utilis. A fortnight ago a special plane from London flew the British yeast-food culture to Capetown where a pilot-plant is now operating experimentally. Before big-scale production begins, the South African Government intends consulting the St. Louis geneticist, Dr. Carl...
...Russian intentions, fear of chaos, fear of the liquidation of the middle classes, fear of the possible postwar recrudescence of German might - these are merely a few of the fears that provoke Europeans to yeasty thinking. But the basic European quarrel is between those who look to the Atlantic Ocean for their freedom and those who regard every one of the 31 States that clutter up Europe from the Bay of Biscay to the Pripet Marshes as being an integral part of a cultural and spiritual entity. Underneath every other battle for the soul of Europe, the fight between...
Dean Pardue is also an exponent of muscular literature. He is responsible for two popular war books. In his congregation last Christmas Eve was Johnny Bartek, the "praying corporal" who was with Eddie Rickenbacker when their plane-crashed in the Pacific Ocean last year. The Dean got Bartek to tell him the story of the party's 21 days on a raft, and Pardue wrote it under the title Life Out There. It was also Pardue who suggested to Colonel Robert L. Scott that he write his experiences as one of General Chennault's aces. Result: the best...
Grisou is really Guimbeau's cat. The Marquis Georges de Visdelou-Guimbeau is Freddy's boyhood friend from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The night of the murder Freddy and Guimbeau gave a party for friends (Nancy was in Maine with her mother). Afterwards Freddy drove two wives of R.A.F. pilots home and, he says, went to bed. This was just after 1. At 3 Guimbeau drove his friend Betty Roberts home, returning 15 minutes later to find Freddy having trouble with Grisou, who would not let him sleep. Guimbeau put Grisou out and went...
...Grande Jatte are extraordinary) and an inspired colorist. He produced only seven large, major canvases, but his hundreds of drawings and oil sketches are rarities in themselves, and his calm vacation seascapes painted at Honfleur and Grandcamp are among the finest chapters in the painted literature of the ocean...