Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atom? Last week in Washington hearings opened on the $100,000,000 Neely-Pepper bill, which would marshal "the best cancer brains in the world" for an all-out war on the disease, in the same way that the Manhattan Project conquered the atom. Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U.S. Public Health .Service told a jampacked opening-day audience that there are not enough properly trained cancer researchers as yet even to begin such a program. Why not, he asked, use the existing facilities and experience of the National Cancer Institute as a nucleus for the research organization...
...trains, as well as dozens of chartered airliners, all carried the same load: tomato seed plants. Before the short shipping season ends, South Georgia farmers will ship a billion tender young tomato plants for planting in northern fields, along with hundreds of millions of onion, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potato, pepper and lettuce seedlings...
...Pepper, Ball and Crossroads [TIME, April...
...this, the Senate listened in silence. Next day Minnesota's Republican Joseph H. Ball had a caustic reply: the Pepper speech was right down the Communist line...
...Greenawisme. Chintz curtains were printed with Greenaway's interpretations of the seasons (a blizzard for January, flowers for June). Greenaway's grave little girls, in long frocks and wide sashes, and her good little boys, in pork pie hats, were painted on dinner sets, turned into salt & pepper shakers; oil lamps were embossed with Greenaway designs; valentines like those from Greenaway's Quiver of Love were de rigueur for little lovers. Samples of these were on display in the Chicago Public Library...