Word: onion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mosquitoes have a preference for ankles, wear two pairs of socks or stockings. 3) To protect the face, use a 50% alcoholic solution of thymol, or oil of cloves in lanolin. 4) If bitten, apply immediately a weak solution of ammonia, washing soda, or soap and vinegar. A cut onion will also relieve the sting. 5) If the bite is painful, swab it with iodine in glycerin...
...part Indian, and while I might not agree with Browder or what he has to say I'll fight for his right to say it. And furthermore if TIME decides its covers on sex appeal alone-I'd pick Browder over Onion-head Hoover or Fudge-face Landon...
...doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt had received no relief money for herself and her three children since mid-April. The Barindt larder contained a can of salt, a box of starch, a cake of soap and an onion...
When the tariff on importing Spanish onions, which had been a large portion of their business, grew prohibitive, Dingfelder & Balish pioneered in importing Spanish onionseed; U. S. production of Spanish onions, which are the choicest of all, in 1921 was only 500 carloads. This year it is about 12,000. Total U. S. onion production last year was 70,000 carloads, of which Dingfelder & Balish handled more than any other firm. Also interested in potatoes, they had gross sales of $5,000,000. Last month after some disagreements Onion King Balish bought out his partner. Last week the new firm...
...Onion King Balish is now president of the National Onion Association and chairman of a committee "to Lift the Onion Eater from the Category of Social Lepers." Owning his own company almost entirely, he lives prosperously with his wife in a colonial house at Manhattan Beach, is particularly proud of a swimming pool, a tennis court, a lavish doll house he has built for his four children. Says he: "I give them everything I didn...