Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quite Contrary. In Fallen, Nev., Victory Gardener M. B. Johnson girded himself for another season, hoped that this year, for a change, his crossbred tomato-potato plant would blossom with the spuds in the ground...
Well Done! In London, "Potato Pete," the poster model who has long urged Britons to eat more potatoes, was lauded and then fired by his boss, the Ministry of Food. His persuasiveness had created a shortage of spuds...
...Amid the potato fields of Long Island, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co. last week sprouted the best production record of the war. In March, Grumman turned out 658 Navy fighting planes, most ever turned out in one month by a single U.S. plane plant. Previous record holder: North American Aviation Inc., with 571 Mustang fighters in January...
...nchen-Gladbach, Corporal Sidney Talmud of the 38th Canal Construction Battalion decided to celebrate the Ninth Army's assault crossing of the Rhine and the Passover season. On the porch of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' onetime home, he set up a camp stove and made potato pancakes for passersby...
Most of them remember the wild days back in 1933 when Wall Street manipulators jacked the stock from $2 a share to $28, then let the price drop like a hot potato so that they could rig the market over again. Thus last week the hardy Atlas stockholders heard a grim summary of their company's condition and took it standing...