Word: pleased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apiarists have supposed that bees thrive only on nectar, but a Soviet bee student, E. Arefyeff of the Maikop Agricultural Research Station, thought of trying them on other foods. He fed them nectar, laced with essences of fruits, fruit-tree leaves, aromatic grasses like mint. The honeyed results were pleasing. Fruit-fed bees produced honey rich in vitamin C; mint-fed bees gave honey that had pleas ant fragrance as well as taste...
Fritz Kreisler signed his first radio contract-with an NBC summer musical program. The violinist had two good reasons for changing his antiradio mind: 1) wartime travel restrictions, 2) pleas from his fans.
Three weeks ago WPB cautiously began to cut back production. Before long, six eastern plants will be partly or completely shut down. U.S. production will be cut some 14%-a round 300,000,000 lb., almost equal to the top prewar year's poundage. Pleas to divert excess aluminum...
They were almost more angry about method than money. The Brotherhoods are the orderly conservatives of U.S. unionism, with a long tradition of protocol in wage negotiations. Their pleas for a wage boost had been shunted about for more than a year. They had spent 45 years building their framework...
Despite "don't travel" pleas by ODT, despite the hoarding of train reservations by ticket scalpers, Florida was swarming with a full 50% more visitors than a year ago and was having its best season since 1929.