Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crop protector, it is deadlier and longer lasting than other insecticides, has been found effective against potato beetles, cabbage worms, apple codling moths, Japanese beetles, aphids, fruit worms, even corn borers - against which previous insecticides have proved to be failures...
...World War II a Geigy chemist, Paul Muller, rediscovered the formula and found that it killed bugs. Its first test came during a plague of potato beetles in Switzerland in 1939. DDT stopped the beetles dead. Concentrated DDT is toxic to men and animals when swallowed, but in the weak dilutions used for sprays and dusts, it has been found harmless to the skin...
Eddie Cantor's ping-pong eyes and small potato voice have abetted many a vulgar nudge and giggle, but nobody ever thought of suppressing him as a menace to public morals. Nevertheless, last week that is just what happened to him. NBC cut Eddie Cantor off the air, in the middle of his act. In Manhattan he and Singer Nora Martin were telecasting an old tune, We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me, which Cantor sang in the 1941-42 Broadway musical, Banjo Eyes. NBC found some of the lyrics and some of the comedian...
...busiest of all is Franchot's girl (Veronica Lake), a refugee with a hot-potato Austrian accent. She is a good pastry cook and Nazi. Between cakes, Veronica sneaks off to plot the destruction of the airdrome and Tone's brother. At long last, Veronica is seen igniting a hay rick to guide the Luftwaffe. Promptly Tone strangles her, joins the R.A.F. When last seen he is high in the air, grinning like a Hollywood Japanese...
Flushed with embarrassment, the War Food Administration found itself confronted with an unmanageable glut of potatoes and eggs. It alone was responsible for bumper crops of these two staples; farmers had patriotically upped production at its urging. So WFA proclaimed last week National Potato Week, this week National Egg Week, and fervently hoped that the nation would rush...